Our partners at Military Phonies<\/a> send us their work on this Peter Schlenker fellow who claims that he was a wounded and highly decorated Vietnam veteran. <\/p>\n

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He claims that he is special forces qualified, that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, Purple Heart Medal, as well as some Vietnam Service awards. According to the National Personnel Records Center, none of that is true;<\/p>\n

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He enlisted in the Army 7 months after Saigon fell to the communists and more than a year after the issue of the National Defense Service Medal was discontinued for the Vietnam War era. So he’s even lying about the NDSM.<\/p>\n

Schlenker spent three years on active duty and he was discharged as a Private E-1, not the Sergeant First Class (E-7) that he claims. He was an infantryman in the 3\/187th Infantry, of the 101st Airborne Division (it was Airborne only in name at the time) he earned the Air Assault Badge and that’s it. I remember the 101st wore a cute little royal blue beret in those days, but there were no special forces units on Fort Campbell at the time he was there.<\/p>\n

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