{"id":80267,"date":"2018-07-01T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80267"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:43:04","slug":"michael-d-border-phony-army-beirut-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80267","title":{"rendered":"Michael D. Border; phony Army Beirut veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80268\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-D.-Border-2-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-D.-Border-2-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-D.-Border-2-255x333.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-D.-Border-2.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our partners at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2018\/07\/01\/michael-deon-border-us-army-wounded-and-lone-survivor-of-ambush-in-beirut-lebanon-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> share their work with us on this fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100009513182554\">Michael Deon Border<\/a> who claims to his friends that he is an Army veteran of the mission to Beirut after the October bombing of the Marine barracks there.<\/p>\n<p>He claims that he was on patrol with his platoon and they were ambushed and he was the sole survivor. He regained consciousness as the evacuation helicopter lifted off. MP had a conversation by email with someone who was questioning Mr Border &#8211; you can click over and read that exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But, Mr Border did serve in the Army, enlisting in October 1983, only a few months before he claims that he was sent to Beirut. His entire career lasted less than two years and his highest award was the lofty Army Service Ribbon.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-Border-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-Border-FOIA-AA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-Border-FOIA-AA-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-Border-FOIA-AA-258x333.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Michael-Border-FOIA-AA.jpg 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not even so much as an Overseas Ribbon &#8211; denoting service outside of the Continental US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our partners at Military Phonies share their work with us on this fellow Michael Deon Border &hellip; <a title=\"Michael D. Border; phony Army Beirut veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80267\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael D. Border; phony Army Beirut veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80267","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\/80267","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=80267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}