{"id":74912,"date":"2017-09-24T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74912"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:54","slug":"ran-papica-phony-special-forces-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74912","title":{"rendered":"Ran Papica; phony Special Forces soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ran-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ran-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ran-346x333.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ran.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folks at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on <a href=\"http:\/\/guardiansofthegreenberet.com\/romeo-antonio-noel-papica-iii-aka-ran-papica-green-beretnot\">Romeo Antonio Noel Papica III, aka Ran Papica<\/a> who claims to have been a special forces soldier and wounded in combat &#8211; he says that his missing leg was lost due to combat wounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our local assets in the area have uncovered many stories about the &#8220;mysterious&#8221; and &#8220;cryptic&#8221; RAN. We can confirmed with rock solid sources the following claims made by this individual:<\/p>\n<p>Bushido Master, Samurai Warrior, United States Navy SEAL, C.I.A. Operative, PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT, United States Army Officer (Major and a Captain at the same time) in the Rangers, Airborne Jump Master, Delta Operator and Special Forces. Mr. Papica claims his amputated leg happened while on a Special Forces secret mission. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Mr. Papica has told various people (who we have talked to) that his leg injury was caused by an IED, RPG, or from an automobile accident, depending on who he was talking to. It was none of the above. It was because he stepped on a rusty nail and the resulting complications associated with diabetes and infection because he never sought medical care. This was confirmed by his pastor to us over the phone. His pastor also confirmed that Ran Papica claimed to be in Special Forces for 14 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74914\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ran-Papica-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ran-Papica-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ran-Papica-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ran-Papica-497x333.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ran-Papica.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Guardians of the Green Beret claim that there hasn&#8217;t been a Papica in the Army since the Korean War era. Ran, here, claims that he was in the Filipino Special Forces, but that is doubtful, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ran has the history of asking people in places he is a member of for money, this has been confirmed by multiple people that would like to stay off the record. He\u2019s been asked to leave those places because of his actions.<\/p>\n<p>The Sarasota Sky Bar and Cafe held a fundraiser for Ran Papica based on his claims. They were holding a second, yet Ran got wind of our investigation and they canceled it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s just a grifter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on Romeo Antonio Noel Papica &hellip; <a title=\"Ran Papica; phony Special Forces soldier\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74912\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ran Papica; phony Special Forces soldier<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74912","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\/74912","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=74912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}