{"id":71711,"date":"2017-04-27T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71711"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:42","slug":"ladner-trial-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71711","title":{"rendered":"Ladner trial update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the folks at Fox5 Atlanta<\/a>, things are not going well for self-proclaimed war hero, Shane Ladner in a Cherokee County, Georgia courtroom. The prosecution hosted the testimony of the commander of regional operations where Ladner claimed to have been wounded, his unit commander and the commander of medical operations for the region.<\/p>\n

“We had no combat operations conducted out of our facility. Classified or unclassified,” retired brigadier general John Walsh flatly stated. “They didn’t exist.”<\/p>\n

Walsh was an Army colonel commanding Joint Task Force Bravo in Honduras in January 1991 when Private First Class Shane Ladner arrived to be a military police officer.<\/p>\n

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“When I was the commander of Joint Task Force Bravo, we never conducted combat operations of any sort of kind,” he told the jury. “No counter-narcotics operations. It wasn’t even part of our mission.”<\/p>\n

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Colonel Percy Dunagin commanded all medical operations on the Honduran base during the time Ladner says he was wounded.<\/p>\n

He testified his people never handled any wounded soldiers.<\/p>\n

“No,” Dr. Dunagin stressed. “Never.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Roland Weiser commanded medical operations in the second half of 1991. When asked about the possibility his hospital treated a combat wounded soldier that year, he said “no,” then answering the question more like drill sergeant than doctor, “I said I thought it was bulls—.”<\/p>\n

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Investigators even found Ladner’s battalion commander from that time. Retired Colonel Walter Wright said no one got a Purple Heart while he was there.<\/p>\n

“If someone had been awarded a Purple Heart, would it have been important for you to know?” asked assistant district attorney Zachary Smith.<\/p>\n

“It would have been important and it would have been rare.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ladner faces six counts of defrauding the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles with this forged DD214 in order to save a couple of bucks of licensing fees for his car;<\/p>\n

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The Army has no record of the award of the Purple Heart, according to the Freedom of Information Act release of his records and his NGB-22 National Guard discharge record;<\/p>\n

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Fox5 speculates that the prosecution could wrap up it’s case today, then the real entertainment begins as Team Ladner defends him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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