{"id":85204,"date":"2019-02-24T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85204"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:32:27","slug":"cny-man-accused-of-impersonating-cia-agent-operates-drone-cameras-for-ny-national-guard-syracuse-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85204","title":{"rendered":"CNY man accused of impersonating CIA agent operates drone cameras for NY National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/crime\/2019\/02\/cny-man-accused-of-impersonating-cia-agent-operates-drone-cameras-for-ny-national-guard.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/7BOJJ4OJN5EI7KES5VHTTZHNRA.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">A Cicero man\u00a0who police have accused of impersonating a CIA agent to impress a woman\u00a0works for the New York Air National Guard as a drone camera operator, according to an Air National Guard spokesman and an\u00a0Air Force website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Ryan R. Houghtalen, 25, was charged with second-degree impersonation of a public servant, a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Houghtalen told the woman he met at church her life was in danger because he was a CIA agent and that they were both targets of ISIS, according to court documents<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have done some crazy things to get laid during my lifetime.\u00a0 There was the time when I showed up with a Weed Eater some Kool Whip\u00a0 and a Live Chicken at a home for wayward\u00a0women only to be &#8230; sorry, I digress.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Houghtalen enlisted with the NY National Guard in January 2012 and is a staff sergeant with the 174th Attack Wing, based at Hancock Field, said Eric Durr, a guard spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Houghtalen serves as a sensor operator on the MQ-9, the Reaper, Durr said. He said could not comment on a sensor operator\u2019s responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">A sensor operator runs the camera on a drone, according to the Air Force\u2019s description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">The 174th Attack Wing pilots the Reaper drones on combat and surveillance missions overseas. The base is also a maintenance and training facility for the squadron of drones. It was the first Air National Guard base to operate the drones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He operates a Drone camera?\u00a0 It takes an entire MOS to run a drone camera?\u00a0 I am having difficulty getting my\u00a0mind around the fact that we now have Staff Sergeants that run drone cameras as a primary MOS.<\/p>\n<p>How does one think that going to church and telling some poor girl that ISIS is coming after her, impress anyone in a way that will work for the best?\u00a0 \u00a0Are there women who will jump in bed with me because they are about to get killed by ISIS anyway?<\/p>\n<p><b>Aim High, Fly-Fight-Win.\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0Ryan should have kept a better grip on his joystick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/crime\/2019\/02\/cny-man-accused-of-impersonating-cia-agent-operates-drone-cameras-for-ny-national-guard.html\">CNY man accused of impersonating CIA agent operates drone cameras for NY National Guard | syracuse.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cicero man\u00a0who police have accused of impersonating a CIA agent to impress a woman\u00a0works for &hellip; <a title=\"CNY man accused of impersonating CIA agent operates drone cameras for NY National Guard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CNY man accused of impersonating CIA agent operates drone cameras for NY National Guard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":85205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85204","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}