{"id":79302,"date":"2018-05-08T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79302"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:46","slug":"samuel-oliverio-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79302","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Oliverio; phony Vietnam veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79303\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-289x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-289x333.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sam.oliverio.92\">Samuel Oliverio<\/a> who claimed at a Putnam Valley, New York Town Board Meeting that he served in Vietnam for eight days, so he doesn&#8217;t consider himself to be a Vietnam veteran. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmZU6C6ELYk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThose who served in peacetime, as I did from 1975 to 1978. I did make the Vietnam classification, but I consider myself a Vietnam era, not a Vietnam veteran, a Vietnam era veteran, because, you know, the little bit of time that I was in country was all of eight days.\u201d  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, according to his records, in May, 1975, the month after US forces left Vietnam, Sam was on the Delayed Entry Program for the Air Force. He got a hardship discharge from DEP and then  enlisted again a year later in the Army. So, if he was in Vietnam for eight days it was on his own dime.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79304\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-AA-341x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-AA-341x333.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-AA-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-AA-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-AA.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-Assignments-343x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-Assignments-343x333.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-Assignments-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-Assignments-768x747.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Samuel-Oliverio-FOIA-Assignments.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what he thinks that lying about eight days in Vietnam will get him, but it was a stupid claim. He spent 25 months in the active duty Army and five months were spent in Korea after a year or so at Hunter Army Airfield as a Military Policeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Samuel Oliverio who claimed at a Putnam Valley, &hellip; <a title=\"Samuel Oliverio; phony Vietnam veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79302\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samuel Oliverio; phony Vietnam veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79302","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\/79302","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=79302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}