{"id":76452,"date":"2017-12-11T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76452"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:20","slug":"edwin-tingstrom-phony-wounded-paratrooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76452","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Tingstrom; phony wounded paratrooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow Edwin Tingstrom who claims that he was a a combat infantryman in Vietnam. As you can see from his uniform, he’s wearing a Combat Infantryman Badge, parachutist wings and a Purple Heart;<\/p>\n

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In a local news story<\/a>, he told that journalist that he was special forces in Vietnam;<\/p>\n

He signed up for the Army in April 1965, joining the 5th Special Forces Group, or the Green Berets. At the end of that year, at the age of 18, he was shipped off to Vietnam.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a scary time,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you take a small-town person and put them into something as large as war, it\u2019s both terrifying and exhilarating. But the biggest emphasis is on terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his 18-month tour, the soldier had several close calls, including a serious case of malaria. Once, a mortar round exploded just 35 feet from him, leaving the infantryman with shrapnel wounds, a concussion and the loss of hearing in his right ear. More devastating, though, was losing two high school buddies from back home.<\/p>\n

Tingstrom returned from Vietnam in May 1967 but was deployed six months later to Germany to serve on a special task force charged with drug enforcement.<\/p>\n

In June 1974, he left the Army, partly because he\u2019d had enough and partly because of psychological issues that have plagued him since Vietnam. The hostile reception veterans received when they came home, plus the memories of war, made transitioning back to civilian life challenging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He told another<\/a> the same thing;<\/p>\n

Ed Tingstrom, 65, served in the Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Every Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and also during funerals for members of the military, he and other volunteers comprise a color guard and march with the American flag.<\/p>\n

The names of two of Tingstrom\u2019s friends are inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., and he thinks about them every day and hopes others will honor their service and sacrifice.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need to understand that the brave men and women who took up arms in defense of the country were there because they needed to give something back to America for all the freedoms that they have enjoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were there because they believed in America.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His records show that he was in Vietnam April 1966 – March 1967. He wasn’t an infantryman or in an infantry unit, he was a clerk in a Psyop Company – not 5th Special Forces. But his records says that he was awarded a CIB. I wonder how a clerk could get a CIB. Well, I don’t really wonder.<\/p>\n

He also never attended jump school, nor was he awarded a Purple Heart. He had a break in service and reenlisted to be an MP in Germany – an odd choice since he wants to adorn himself with infantry accoutrements.<\/p>\n

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And, oh, he’s wearing the blue infantry cord on the wrong shoulder. A real infantryman would never do that. Everyone wants to be an infantryman until it’s time to do infantry stuff. He should cough up some orders for that CIB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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