{"id":100411,"date":"2020-06-01T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100411"},"modified":"2020-06-01T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:38:57","slug":"former-british-royal-marine-commando-faces-the-sack-over-wearing-fake-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100411","title":{"rendered":"Former British Royal Marine \u00adCommando Faces &#8220;The Sack&#8221; over Wearing Fake Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/McAleavey.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-100412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/McAleavey.jpg?resize=360%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/McAleavey.jpg?resize=281%2C333&amp;ssl=1 281w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/McAleavey.jpg?resize=253%2C300&amp;ssl=1 253w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/McAleavey.jpg?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8375127\/Chief-officer-nuclear-police-force-faces-sack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DailyMailCo.UK<\/a> posts that a former British Royal Commando was caught wearing fake Iraq and Afghanistan war medals to an awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8375127\/Chief-officer-nuclear-police-force-faces-sack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senior officer at nuclear police force faces the sack after being accused of wearing fake Iraq and Afghanistan war medals to awards ceremony<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The chief gun officer at the\u00a0Civil Nuclear Constabulary could be sacked after he was accused of wearing\u00a0fake military medals including\u00a0Iraq\u00a0and\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0military \u00adcampaign ribbons at an awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Supt Glenn McAleavey, Force Firearms Officer for\u00a0the Civil Nuclear Constabulary allegedly wore the ribbons on his tunic, despite never having served in either war zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 37-year-old, who is a former Royal Marine \u00adcommando, was reported by another former marine at the event, it is understood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He is accused of breaching honesty and integrity standards and discreditable conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0McAleavey served in the Royal Marines for four years before leaving in 2007 to become\u00a0a firearms instructor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He now\u00a0oversees the CNC&#8217;s \u00a339million training facility at Sellafield, Cumbria.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article points out the he &#8220;is facing the sack&#8221; for wearing the medals.\u00a0 He did not serve in either Afghanistan or Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DailyMailCo.UK posts that a former British Royal Commando was caught wearing fake Iraq and Afghanistan war medals to an awards ceremony. Senior officer at nuclear police force faces the sack after being accused of wearing fake Iraq and Afghanistan war medals to awards ceremony The chief gun officer at the\u00a0Civil Nuclear Constabulary could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":100412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-iraq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/McAleavey.jpg?fit=634%2C751&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-q7x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}