{"id":77688,"date":"2018-02-13T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77688"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:27","slug":"sheldon-shepherd-still-not-a-navy-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77688","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon Shepherd; still not a Navy SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77299\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepard-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepard-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepard.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77298\">Last month<\/a>, I told you that Sheldon Shepherd was not a Navy SEAL despite what his obituary said;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77300\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-claims-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-claims-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-claims-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-claims-304x333.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-claims.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77301\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL-296x333.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sheldon-Shepherd-SEAL.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our Partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2018\/02\/13\/sheldon-t-shepard-not-a-seal-no-purple-heart-or-bronze-stars\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> beat us in the race to get his FOIA. Folks tell us that there is a DD214 out there that support the claims in the obits that Sheldon was a SEAL, that he earned Bronze Stars for Valor and that he&#8217;d been wounded and awarded a Purple Heart. The FOIA doesn&#8217;t support that nonsense;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-AA-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-AA-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-AA.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77690\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-Assignments-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-Assignments-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-Assignments-256x333.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-FOIA-Assignments.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77692\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-1-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-1-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-1-384x333.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sheldon-Shepherd-1.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not only was he not a SEAL, it looks like he never set foot in Vietnam. He was on the USS RB Anderson which was off the coast of Vietnam in 1970-1971 while he was aboard as a Radioman. It looks like he returned to Vietnam on the USS Horne in 1971-1972. No Bronze Star Medals (only 2 bronze service stars on his Vietnam Service Medal). No Purple Hearts. There is nothing that indicates that he &#8220;spent many months in the hospital recuperating from a headshot&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77298#comment-3079412\">it has been claimed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It looks like he was busted from E-2 to E-1 and then promoted to E-2 again just before he was ultimately discharged. But he wasn&#8217;t a SEAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I told you that Sheldon Shepherd was not a Navy SEAL despite what his &hellip; <a title=\"Sheldon Shepherd; still not a Navy SEAL\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77688\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheldon Shepherd; still not a Navy SEAL<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77688","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\/77688","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=77688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}