{"id":89863,"date":"2019-08-16T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89863"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:52","slug":"gerald-young-phony-lone-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89863","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Young – Phony Lone Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> The folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on Gerald Donnell Young<\/a> who served in Afghanistan with the National Guard.\u00a0 Gerald Young lives in the Des Moines area of Iowa and is 50 years old as of August 2019. Young claims that while in Afghanistan guarding a fuel depot, they came under attack and as a direct result of enemy fire he was “injured” and he was the only man out of five that survived.\u00a0 Young wanted to honor and remember his comrades, so what he came up with was to sell BBQ sauce.<\/p>\r\n

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This was broadcast by We Are Iowa Local 5 News but it is also on Young’s webpage<\/a>.\u00a0 There are also a few audio files on that page from radio interviews.\u00a0 We clipped out the significant parts about military claims but the rest of the radio show interviews are available on Young’s page.<\/p>\r\n

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https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/young-radio2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\r\n

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There were also some claims in print…<\/p>\r\n

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There are many more references on this internet and on the Military Phony<\/a> website. Men that Young served with came forward and said the story was not true, some even surprised they were dead.<\/p>\r\n

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In addition to Young’s comrades, the official statistics kept by the unit did not show incidents that would support wounds and Killed-In-Action during that time frame.

https:\/\/www.iowanationalguard.com\/History\/Pages\/In-Memorial.aspx<\/a>

https:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/News\/Article\/610224\/four-iowa-national-guard-soldiers-wounded-in-afghanistan\/<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n

So, his records were ordered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request…

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So, there was no Purple Heart listed under his awards which explains the reason for the nuance of language when Young said he was “injured” vs. “wounded.”<\/p>\r\n

There are no articles about four KIAs from the National Guard being killed in Afghanistan in 2003.<\/p>\r\n

Maybe this is all a huge mistake?\u00a0 We would love for Gerald Young to tell us the names of the friends that were killed.\u00a0 That would go a long way towards clearing things up.<\/p>\r\n

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The BBQ sauce that Young sells may be terrific, but it should stand on its own vs. Young putting out a story about honoring dead soldiers.\u00a0 The story does seem to be an integral part of his marketing campaign…<\/p>\r\n

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It is also odd that he sells the BBQ sauce in an Army uniform.<\/p>\r\n

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The other irony here is he does not<\/strong> ever say that he is donating the proceeds to the families of the fallen – the very men he is supposedly honoring.\u00a0 Well, there is no need if the story is fictitious.\u00a0 However, it seems if he were to leverage the military, he would donate a portion of the proceeds to some veteran support organization – you know, like maybe the same programs and organizations that helped him get a start in business?<\/p>\r\n

Nope… it appears to be more a case of:<\/p>\r\n

Remember the fallen and pass the BBQ sauce.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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