{"id":78648,"date":"2018-04-02T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78648"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:07:44","slug":"kelly-clark-sr-no-not-that-bronze-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78648","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clark, Sr; no, not that Bronze Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78649\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78649\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/26238964_110536613086363_1711102057672855350_na.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/26238964_110536613086363_1711102057672855350_na.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/26238964_110536613086363_1711102057672855350_na-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100023900740108\">Kelly Clark<\/a> fellow. The leadership of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.combatvet.us\/\">Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association<\/a> tried to get him to remove the Bronze Star Medal patch on his vest (in the picture above), but he refused claiming that he had been awarded the Bronze Star Medal. The Association stuck by their guns and Clark quit.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at his DD214, Clark served aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Mispillion_(AO-105)\">USS Mispillion (AO-105)<\/a>, an Ashtabula-class oiler, probably while it was stationed off the coast of Vietnam for seven months in 1967 servicing the ships involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yankee_Station\">Yankee Station<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Clark left the Navy in 1970 as an E-3 Gunner&#8217;s Mate. His discharge says that he was awarded a Vietnam Service Medal with a Bronze Service Star, meaning that he was stationed off the coast of Vietnam during a particular campaign. A Bronze Service Star is very different from a Bronze Star Medal and Mr Clark should know that without being told.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78650\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78650\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kelly-Clark-DD214-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kelly-Clark-DD214-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kelly-Clark-DD214-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Kelly-Clark-DD214.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He has a reenlistment code of RE-4 which means that he wasn&#8217;t eligible for reenlistment for some reason or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this Kelly Clark fellow. The leadership of the Combat Veterans &hellip; <a title=\"Kelly Clark, Sr; no, not that Bronze Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78648\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kelly Clark, Sr; no, not that Bronze Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78648","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=78648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}