{"id":88390,"date":"2019-06-27T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88390"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:52","slug":"david-r-ziegel-phony-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88390","title":{"rendered":"David R. Ziegel – Phony Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on David R. Ziegel<\/a> who is 64 y\/o and lives in Beaver Dam, WI.<\/p>\n

Dave claims… uh, well… he claims just about everything:<\/p>\n

AH1 Cobra Pilot and Gunner, 101st Airborne, 7th Cavalry, Army LT (see above photo), U.S. Army Recon Scout Team “Mamba,” 17th Light Infantry Brigade, Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) and Jungle Expert serving on US Army Counter-Narcotics Teams down in Central America.<\/p>\n

First, there is the AH1 Cobra Gunner\/Pilot where he teases us with the term “Hot and Black” which only those on the “inside” would know what it means…<\/p>\n

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Then, as a pilot…<\/p>\n

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Then, the landing…<\/p>\n

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There’s a pattern here – most of the photos are scratchy, out of focus and the photographers are often deceased.<\/p>\n

Let’s move on to ground operations…<\/p>\n

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Then there is Team “Mamba” of the 17th Light Infantry Brigade \/ LRRP \/ 101st Airborne Division…<\/p>\n

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Then, his team.\u00a0 He labels them for clarity…<\/p>\n

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Most of them are now dead though…\u00a0 but his point here is they were the “real deal” before Hollywood came along and cheapened things…<\/p>\n

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Oddly enough, this photo is readily available on the internet and each member is identified.\u00a0 The one on the left is not Ziegel as he labeled, but another soldier.<\/p>\n

Ziegel would often tell these stories in bars and other places around town, but people that knew him well recall that he was around town when he said he was in Central America.<\/p>\n

This, of course, does not stop David from reliving the glory days of the past…<\/p>\n

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When filing a FOIA for the NPRC and the Wisconsin National Guard, they kept referring to each other in an endless loop.\u00a0 Six FOIAs were filed with the same result…<\/p>\n

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Then, he had records of another kind…<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/arrestfacts.com\/David-Ziegel-2u5v11<\/a><\/p>\n

Looks like David spent some time in the pokey.<\/p>\n

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We don’t suspect these charges would be compatible with serving recently in a US Army Counter-Narcotics unit.<\/p>\n

What is ironic is that the Wisconsin National Guard does in fact have a Counter-Narcotics unit.<\/p>\n

I’m going to cut this short, but many of these photos Dave has on his Facebook page are taken from the internet.<\/p>\n

Have fun identifying where they came from and who’s in them.<\/p>\n

HINT: They don’t seem to be of the warrior we all know from Beaver Dam.<\/p>\n

The sadest part about all of this is we may never know what ‘going in “Black and Hot”‘ means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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