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The folks at Military Phonies<\/a> send us their work on this fellow, Benjamin Jesalva<\/a> who claims that he was a Navy SEAL in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

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The Navy doesn’t remember his career like that. He doesn’t appear in the database of folks who trained to be SEALs according to Don Shipley and the Navy is convinced that he was an E-4 cook (SD3) on a couple of ships.<\/p>\n

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He does have a Vietnam Service Medal, but two of the ships he was on, the USS Cowell and the USS Arnold J. Isbell, were near Vietnam during their patrols of the Taiwan Straits. While he was on the USS Haven, a hospital ship, it was stationed in Long Beach, California as a floating hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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