{"id":79101,"date":"2018-04-27T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79101"},"modified":"2018-04-27T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:33:09","slug":"robert-hammell-is-not-a-navy-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79101","title":{"rendered":"Robert Hammell is not a Navy SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone noticed an obituary in which Robert Hammell was memorialized and whoever wrote it thinks that Robert was a Navy SEAL;<\/p>\n

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However, he wasn’t a Navy SEAL according to Don Shipley and the US Navy;<\/p>\n

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I have no proof that Robert ever made the claim that he was a SEAL. Often, confused family members write things in an obituary that aren’t true. The same goes for Funeral service providers. So, I’m not calling this stolen valor. I’m just correcting the historical record. Robert Hammell was never a Navy SEAL. <\/p>\n

According to his records, he spent three years in the Navy. He served on the USS Cayuga – Cayuga did see some action in Vietnam when they provided support to Operation Song Than, a Marine Corps amphibious assault in support of the defense of Hue City in May 1972. Cayuga was on the receiving end of some North Vietnamese Army indirect fire which earned the ship the Combat Action Ribbon. However Hammell didn’t join the crew until about six months later in December, 1972, so he is not an actual Vietnam veteran with service in the area. He’s a Vietnam-era veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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