{"id":74805,"date":"2017-09-19T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74805"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:55","slug":"gerald-fairman-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74805","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Fairman; phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once again, our partners at Military Phonies<\/a> send thier work on a phony SEAL, this Gerald Fairman<\/a> fellow. He’s also the Post Commander of American Legion Post 183<\/a> in Fern Park, Florida.<\/p>\n

You can see from his ribbon rack that he not only claims that he’s a SEAL, but also that he was wounded in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

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The Navy disagrees, though. They think he only served less than eleven months and that he was trained to be an Aviation Boatswain\u2019s Mate and that he was discharged as an E-3. They also only remember awarding him the National Defense Service Medal.<\/p>\n

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The NPRC says that he served on USS Shreveport (LPD-12) and during late 1971-early 1972 they were generally floating around the Caribbean on training shakedown cruises out of Guantanamo, no where near Vietnam. In the summer months of 1971 and 1972, they took some midshipmen on training cruises to Northern Europe and then returned to Norfolk. So he’s lying about Vietnam, too.<\/p>\n

Because of the time period during which he briefly served (depending on the character of his real discharge), Fairman would have been qualified to join the Legion and be the Post Commander without the bling, so he pinned that stuff on for himself. I guess he never thought that wearing a SEAL Trident is like turning on a neonlight over his highly polished dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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