{"id":74598,"date":"2017-09-10T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74598"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:56","slug":"jose-rolon-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74598","title":{"rendered":"Jose Rolon; phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, the Citrus County Chronicle<\/a> wrote about Jose Rolon, who told them that he was a Navy SEAL until 1994 when he left the Navy with two Purple Hearts and ended up homeless.<\/p>\n

Jose Rolon doesn\u2019t consider himself a victim and doesn\u2019t want pity.<\/p>\n

A disabled, blind Navy Seal veteran with two Purple Hearts, he has a passion to see that veterans get better treatment, from the VA to local help agencies in communities across the nation.<\/p>\n

He credits organizations like Nature Coast Ministries for stepping in when other places had turned him away.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Citrus County-based Nature Coast Ministries filled Rolon\u2019s new apartment in Hernando County with furniture after learning he was sleeping on the floor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, this week after a conversation with Don Shipley, the Chronicle <\/a>had to walk their story back, because Jose isn’t a SEAL;<\/p>\n

Shipley, who lives in Cambridge, Maryland, called the Chronicle early Tuesday morning, Aug. 29, when he read a story on Page A3 of the Chronicle about Jose Rolon, who said he is a former Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n

Citrus County-based Nature Coast Ministries had learned about [Rolon], that he was blind and living in an apartment in Brooksville without furniture, so the nonprofit ministry gave Rolon furniture.<\/p>\n

As Shipley explained, whenever a story is published containing keywords such as \u201cformer Navy SEAL,\u201d \u201cex-Navy SEAL,\u201d \u201cretired Navy SEAL,\u201d he and others get a Google alert.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not an epidemic, it\u2019s a pandemic,\u201d Shipley said. \u201cI verify dozens of these guys a day. All I need is a name and a close enough age and run it through the SEAL database. Out of 100, 99 are fakes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re waiting for his FOIA, but odds are that he lied about the Purple Heart, too. Yeah, I’m sick of the phony SEALs, too.<\/p>\n

The Nature Coast Ministries say that the would have helped Rolon no matter what his service status is, so it makes me wonder what his motivation to lie was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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