{"id":79992,"date":"2018-06-15T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79992"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:43","slug":"heather-mackay-phony-air-force-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79992","title":{"rendered":"Heather MacKay; phony Air Force veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-2-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-2-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-2-329x333.jpg 329w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-2.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this Heeather MacKay person who claims that she&#8217;s an Air Force veteran in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongfitnessmag.com\/motivation\/get-inspired\/heather-mackay\/\">Strong Fitness Magazine<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heather Mackay was a 22-year-old firefighter in the US military when she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Her disease, she was told, was caused when small brain injuries during her service activated a rare gene mutation that causes cancer cells to produce rapidly. She was given a medical discharge and underwent chemotherapy and radiation, then finally brain surgery, during which, she slipped into a coma.<\/p>\n<p>When she woke up, Heather had no recollection of the last seven years. She didn\u2019t remember anything about herself, including her one-year-old son and four-year-old daughter. She had also lost the ability to walk and talk. She had to start from scratch. Within a month or two, her memories of her family started to return, but she would spend the next year and a half in rehabilitation re-learning everything from speaking to using a fork to feed herself.<\/p>\n<p>After rehab, Heather returned to the military as a K9 handler, but a year and a half later she experienced symptoms of sickness and lethargy. \u201cAs a military person, you don\u2019t want to admit weaknesses,\u201d recalls Heather. \u201cBack then it was really hush-hush. You didn\u2019t come out and say when things were wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked for her military records, the Air Force and the National Personnel Records Center responded &#8220;Who?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79994\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-a-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-a-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-a-271x333.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-a.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79995\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-b-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-b-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-b-355x333.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AF-b.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heather-MacKay-FOIA-AA.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this Heeather MacKay person who claims that she&#8217;s an Air &hellip; <a title=\"Heather MacKay; phony Air Force veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79992\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heather MacKay; phony Air Force veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79992","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\/79992","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=79992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}