{"id":79180,"date":"2018-05-01T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79180"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:47","slug":"stolen-valor-randy-voepel-a-disgrace-to-u-s-navy-and-all-who-honorably-served-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79180","title":{"rendered":"STOLEN VALOR: RANDY VOEPEL &#8230; A DISGRACE TO U.S. NAVY AND ALL WHO HONORABLY SERVED IN VIETNAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: MCPO (SW) Terence B. Hoey, USN (Ret.), Stolen Valor Researcher &#038; Investigator<br \/>\nApril 30, 2018, New York City<\/p>\n<p>I have been reporting on Valor Thief Voepel since last March 29th, Vietnam Veterans Day. His tales of military derring-do are so outrageous, insulting and unbelievable, I traveled to San Diego on April 16th and exposed him (at the stern of the USS MIDWAY Museum) for what he is: a liar; a complete fraud; and a total disgrace to the U.S. Navy. PERIOD.<\/p>\n<p>Some media outlets could not or did not want to do their homework or listen to the evidence at hand. So, we found a real journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego will be breaking the expected news about Voepel&#8217;s continued false claims and disgusting remarks about what it is like to be in combat. The Stolen Valor community has obtained several devastating videos of the now and future former CA Assemblyman Randy Voepel claiming to have served with Task Force (TF) 117 in Vietnam. He claims to have served on boats as a gunner inserting U.S. Navy SEALs. He did not, he was onboard the USS GURKE (DD-783) at the time of his wild and unbelievable claims.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79181\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Voepel-River-Assault-Force-313x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Voepel-River-Assault-Force-313x333.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Voepel-River-Assault-Force-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Voepel-River-Assault-Force.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We immediately provided these videos to Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego who is working on a story that will certainly rock CA politics to the core and finally propel the issue of Stolen Valor to national attention.  <\/p>\n<p>New insulting and disgusting Voepel videos here at the Times of San Diego:  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mQAjmdLZQhw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Stolen Valor community is calling on Voepel to resign immediately without any further delay. In addition we are calling on federal and state law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction and the CA Assembly to conduct a full and complete investigation into Voepel&#8217;s claims, the denials and misinformation provided by his Chief of Staff, Mason Herron and to ensure the U.S. Stolen Valor Act of 2013, 18 USC 498 and CA Assembly Bill 153 (CA Stolen Valor Act of 2017) is applied as appropriate. Voepel supported CA AB 153, a bill that will likely and finally facilitate his removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>The Stolen Valor community, Veterans and like-minded patriots across our great nation are watching this story as it develops and we wait for law enforcement and leadership in the CA Assembly to take action.<\/p>\n<p>I will be reporting on this story as it continues to develop and will not stop exposing confirmed valor thieves like Voepel and the miscreants he now represents.<br \/>\nCalifornia&#8217;s last Vietnam Veteran serving in the Assembly is nothing more than a CLOWN, problem is &#8230; no one is laughing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: MCPO (SW) Terence B. Hoey, USN (Ret.), Stolen Valor Researcher &#038; Investigator April 30, 2018, &hellip; <a title=\"STOLEN VALOR: RANDY VOEPEL &#8230; A DISGRACE TO U.S. NAVY AND ALL WHO HONORABLY SERVED IN VIETNAM\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79180\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STOLEN VALOR: RANDY VOEPEL &#8230; A DISGRACE TO U.S. NAVY AND ALL WHO HONORABLY SERVED IN VIETNAM<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79180","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\/79180","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=79180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97200,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79180\/revisions\/97200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}