{"id":77187,"date":"2018-01-17T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77187"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:29","slug":"abel-caceres-phony-wounded-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77187","title":{"rendered":"Abel C\u00e1ceres; phony wounded Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77188\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77188\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abel-c%C3%A1ceres-0a27056a\/\">Abel C\u00e1ceres<\/a>, who claims that he was &#8220;scared, wounded, wandering in the desert&#8221; at about 15:00 in this video in which he was addressing graduating students last Spring in Colorado. At about 20:50 he says that he was cut off from his unit in Kuwait, that he was in &#8220;a fierce firefight, wounded and afraid. Alone. I was able to rejoin my unit&#8221;. Nevermind, I edited the video down to the relevant parts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IycsaS47MhA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to his records, he did participate in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He was a supply clerk in Headquarters Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion of the 2nd Force Service Support Group. He doesn&#8217;t have a Purple Heart Medal or even a Combat Action Ribbon which would verify that he was involved in a &#8220;fierce firefight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77189\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-AA.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Assignments-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Assignments-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Assignments-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Assignments.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77191\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77191\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Awards-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Awards-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Awards-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Abel-Cacers-FOIA-Awards.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He left the Marine Corps as a Lance Corporal after four years of honorable service. It looks like he was a supply clerk the whole time, not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that &#8211; unless you start making up stuff that you didn&#8217;t do and start using it to impress high school graduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Abel C\u00e1ceres, who claims that he was &#8220;scared, &hellip; <a title=\"Abel C\u00e1ceres; phony wounded Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77187\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abel C\u00e1ceres; phony wounded Marine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77187","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\/77187","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=77187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}