{"id":96538,"date":"2020-03-02T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96538"},"modified":"2020-03-01T20:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T01:24:51","slug":"paul-kilbourn-phony-seal-and-the-devil-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96538","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kilbourn &#8211; Phony SEAL and &#8220;The Devil of Afghanistan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-palmtree.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96539 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-palmtree-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-palmtree-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-palmtree-420x333.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-palmtree.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2020\/03\/01\/howard-paul-kilbourn-us-navy-seal-silver-star-two-bronze-stars-blog-of-shame\/?fbclid=IwAR3M3D0rXwFG7NA3Ynp-kEGNhyLPlnEGU8Sg7FfjviLv99xKshIL3gr0Hko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MilitaryPhony<\/a> sent us their work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.kilbourn.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howard &#8220;Paul&#8221; Kilbourn<\/a>.\u00a0 Kilbourn lives in Windsor, Colorado and is 37 years old at the time of this writing \u2013 March 2020.\u00a0 He seems to prefer to go by just \u201cPaul\u201d when he isn&#8217;t being called &#8220;The Reaper&#8221; or &#8220;The Devil of Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Kilbourn\u2019s Facebook profile, it states that he was a \u201cFormer Warfare Operator NAVY SEAL at U.S. Navy\u201d in addition to prominently displaying a U.S. Navy SEAL Trident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-facebook.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-facebook-438x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-facebook-438x333.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-facebook-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-facebook-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-facebook.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you drill down into the &#8220;About&#8221; section, you can see that he claims he was in the Navy from 1999-2000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilborun-1999-2008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilborun-1999-2008-451x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilborun-1999-2008-451x333.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilborun-1999-2008-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilborun-1999-2008-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilborun-1999-2008.jpg 1899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiredia.com\/wiki\/User:Phillambert7326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikiredia<\/a> page that bears his name, Kilbourn is listed as a Navy SEAL sniper in addition to a nickname of \u201cThe Reaper\u201d and \u201cThe Devil of Afghanistan.\u201d\u00a0 The latter may be a theme from the movie \u201cAmerican Sniper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on this Wiki page, it claims he was with SEAL Team 3 and awarded a Silver Star and two (2) Bronze Stars (valor). It also says he participated in the Battle of Ramadi and the Second Battle of Fallujah (Operation Al-Fajr).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-wikiredia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-wikiredia-409x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-wikiredia-409x333.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-wikiredia-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-wikiredia-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-wikiredia.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kilbourn&#8217;s name was checked against the UDT\/SEAL archives and the UDT\/SEAL database and it was discovered that there is NO record of \u201cHoward Paul Kilbourn\u201d or any other variation of his name ever completing BUD\/S Training or assigned to any SEAL teams.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is <em><strong>no<\/strong><\/em> record of a Silver Star listed for Howard Paul Kilbourn at the following databases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/homeofheroes.com\/silver-star\/silver-star-global-war-on-terror\/silver-star-global-war-on-terror-navy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/homeofheroes.com\/silver-star\/silver-star-global-war-on-terror\/silver-star-global-war-on-terror-navy\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/Recipients\/Navy-Silver-Star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/Recipients\/Navy-Silver-Star\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kilbourn\u2019s military records were ordered from the Department of the Navy through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-foia-don-no-records.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96543 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-foia-don-no-records-500x324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-foia-don-no-records-500x324.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-foia-don-no-records-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kilbourn-foia-don-no-records-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just for the sake of completeness, the DoD Manpower Data Center was systematically searched from 1998, when Kilbourn would have been 16 years old, to the present day.\u00a0 In every search conducted, there was no record found of active duty service.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>DISCUSSION and SUMMARY<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>When trying to obtain Kilbourn\u2019s official military records from the Department of the Navy (DoN), they could not locate any military records on him.<\/p>\n<p>Since there are no military records to confer with, there would be no record of military training as a SEAL and therefore no deployments or military conflicts that he would be awarded the Silver Star and two Bronze Stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STOLEN VALOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the claims by Paul Kilbourn were used to leverage work, military or civilian promotions, or anything else of value, he may be in violation of Stolen Valor laws. State laws may also apply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>NOTE: Dave Hardin is away this week and asked me to post this case for him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at MilitaryPhony sent us their work on Howard &#8220;Paul&#8221; Kilbourn.\u00a0 Kilbourn lives in Windsor, &hellip; <a title=\"Paul Kilbourn &#8211; Phony SEAL and &#8220;The Devil of Afghanistan&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96538\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Kilbourn &#8211; Phony SEAL and &#8220;The Devil of Afghanistan&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":96539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,479,320,400,119,393,339,462,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-bronze-star","category-fake-seal","category-iraq","category-navy","category-navyposer","category-phony-seal","category-silver-star","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96544,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96538\/revisions\/96544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}