{"id":76590,"date":"2017-12-17T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76590"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:19","slug":"ben-franklin-iii-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76590","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin III; phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Benjamin Earl Franklin III who claims to be a former Navy SEAL and he pretends that as a Brigadier General in the North Carolina State Guard, he’s been called to active duty for deployments to the War Against Terror. That’s his Trident on the blurry screen shot above. <\/p>\n

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As a clarification, the North Carolina State Guard is not the National Guard – it is a volunteer organization and members pin on whatever rank they think they deserve. They don’t get called to active duty, mostly because they don’t really train for combat. They help during natural disasters and fill in for National Guard troops when the National Guard deploys. The North Carolina State Guard was suspended due to a Workman Compensation issue in 1996, and the suspension is still in effect, so Ol’ Ben here is a uniform without an Army.<\/p>\n

Anyway, he wasn’t a Navy SEAL. He was a ETN3 (Electronics Technician E-4) on the USS Stormes for less than four months while it was engaged in operations off the coast of Vietnam in 1966. That was the extent of his participation in the Vietnam War. The Stormes spent 1967 and 1968 cruising the Mediterranean and training off the coast of South America with Ben aboard. <\/p>\n

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He was busted years ago, but when the old POW Network went out of business, I guess he thought it was safe to be a pretender again. Nope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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