{"id":75442,"date":"2017-10-18T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75442"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:25","slug":"joff-paradise-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75442","title":{"rendered":"Joff Paradise; phony veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-301x333.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone ran across an article in their copy of Elevate (the article has since been yanked) in which this fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joff.paradise\">Joff Paradise<\/a>, claimed to have been a special forces officer who lost his leg as a result of combat.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75444\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-1-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-1-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-1-278x333.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-1.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75445\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-header-2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-header-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-header-2-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-header-2.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75446\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-3-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-3-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-3-263x333.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Article-Header-3.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s funny because that is not what he told someone in Facebook communications in regards to his loss of his leg;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-accident-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-accident-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-accident-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-accident-434x333.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-accident.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecheapplace.com\/posts\/biker-life-style\/bikers-for-christ-ministers-to-fallen-biker\">Bikers for Christ<\/a> seem to think that Paradise lost his leg in a motorcycle accident;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Bikers-for-Christ-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Bikers-for-Christ-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Bikers-for-Christ-380x333.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Paradise-Bikers-for-Christ.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Of course, what makes his Vietnam stories harder to believe is the National Personnel Records Center says that there is no record of his service in the NPRC or at the Air Force;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75448\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AA.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AB-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AB-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AB-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JeffParadise-FOIA-AB.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75450\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Joff-Paradise-FOIA.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mr Paradise was born in 1962, so the Vietnam War ended when he was thirteen years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone ran across an article in their copy of Elevate (the article has since been yanked) &hellip; <a title=\"Joff Paradise; phony veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75442\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joff Paradise; phony veteran<\/span>Read 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