{"id":73293,"date":"2017-07-10T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73293"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:01","slug":"william-derek-church-back-on-the-phony-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73293","title":{"rendered":"William Derek Church; back on the phony pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39187\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church3-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church3-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church3-272x333.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church3.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone uncovered some photos from somewhere of our old friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39182\">Derek Church<\/a>, &#8220;The Round Ranger&#8221; who thought that it was safe for him to go back in the Stolen Valor waters;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73294\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church-334x333.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73295\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church1-220x333.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church1.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you have forgotten his back story, he got married in the phony finery at the top of the page, and of course we spotted it right off. When we got his records, we discovered that he had five weeks on active duty and never completed Basic Combat Training. When he was made famous, he tried to sockpuppet his way out of it &#8211; his sockpuppet, Wil Chamberlin vouched for his service.  His wife piled on, but we were relentless, finally he fessed up to it. I guess he figures that we&#8217;d forgot about him;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39185\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39185\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-FOIA-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-FOIA-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-FOIA-259x333.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-FOIA.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39186\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-assignments-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-assignments-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-assignments-500x216.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/William-Derek-Church-assignments.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But who can forget his baggy-ass drawers?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church2-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the Thunderdome, Derek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone uncovered some photos from somewhere of our old friend Derek Church, &#8220;The Round Ranger&#8221; who &hellip; <a title=\"William Derek Church; back on the phony pony\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73293\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Derek Church; back on the phony pony<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}