{"id":75401,"date":"2017-10-16T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75401"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:25","slug":"gene-raymond-silverstrand-phony-special-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75401","title":{"rendered":"Gene Raymond Silverstrand; phony special operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-1-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-1-236x333.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-1.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2017\/10\/16\/gene-raymond-silverstrand-aka-ray-silverstrand-us-marine-us-army-combat-instructor-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> share their work with us on this fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ray.silverstrand.3\">Gene Raymond Silverstrand<\/a> who claims that he served in the Marine Corps and the Army &#8220;in combat arms and special operations units&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-Claims-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-Claims-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-Claims-313x333.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-Claims.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That same claim was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/story\/news\/education\/2017\/01\/18\/pe-gets-kick-kirby-martial-arts-teacher\/96729026\/\">local newspaper<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-claims-1-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-claims-1-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-claims-1-500x183.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-claims-1.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no, according to his Marine Corps records, he was a reservist and a Hygiene Equipment Repairman. The Army says that he was in the National Guard and worked various jobs ranging from Supply Specialist to Cook. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75405\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-AA-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75406\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-2-Army-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-2-Army-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-2-Army-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-2-Army-431x333.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75407\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-1-USMC-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-1-USMC-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-1-USMC-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gene-Silverstrand-FOIA-Assignments-1-USMC-257x333.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There were no special operations units, although he did function at headquarters units in National Guard Infantry units. He did spend a brief time as an infantryman, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been working for him, because he went back to the messhall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our partners at Military Phonies share their work with us on this fellow, Gene Raymond Silverstrand &hellip; <a title=\"Gene Raymond Silverstrand; phony special operations\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75401\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gene Raymond Silverstrand; phony special operations<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75401","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\/75401","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=75401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}