{"id":79418,"date":"2018-05-14T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79418"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:45","slug":"anthony-gradi-phony-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79418","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Gradi; phony Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79419\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-7-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-7-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-7-315x333.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-7.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2018\/05\/13\/anthony-gradi-phony-marine\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> sent us their work on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100007384056844\">Anthony Gradi<\/a> fellow who claims to be a Marine;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79420\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79420\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-2-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-2-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-2-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-2-347x333.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-2.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79421\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-4-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-4.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79422\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-5-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-5.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79423\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79423\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-6-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-6-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-6-187x333.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-6.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Marines responded &#8220;Who?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79425\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AB-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AB-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AB-768x997.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AB-256x333.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AB.jpg 1694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Personnel Records Center, which would hold Gradi\u2019s records based on the time frame he would have served on active duty, could find no records indicating that Gradi served in the Armed Forces.  It is possible that he could have served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, but active duty would have shown up if he went to boot camp and certainly any specialized MOS training.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the NPRC seemed to point to service in the Merchant Marines, so a request was made to the Department of Homeland Security for Merchant Marine service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AA-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AA-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AA-768x996.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Anthony-Gradi-FOIA-AA.jpg 1693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our partners at Military Phonies sent us their work on this Anthony Gradi fellow who claims &hellip; <a title=\"Anthony Gradi; phony Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79418\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthony Gradi; phony Marine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79418","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\/79418","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=79418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}