{"id":27571,"date":"2011-11-19T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2011-11-19T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:42:37","slug":"armando-cordoba-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27571","title":{"rendered":"Armando Cordoba busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, we mentioned a <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26687\">Stolen Valor<\/a> case that our buddy, JD at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professionalsoldiers.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=35125\">Professional Soldiers<\/a>, was working on, in regards to Armando Cordoba (sounds like a cabana boy, doesn&#8217;t he?). Armando claimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mantecabulletin.com\/archives\/27323\/\">in a local newspaper<\/a> that he had been a POW of the North vietnamese Army.<\/p>\n<p>Average NCO sends us<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mantecabulletin.com\/section\/1\/article\/29516\/\"> a link to that newspaper&#8217;s correction<\/a> today;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That information now appears to be inaccurate. Information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request through the National Archives show that Cordoba did serve honorably in Vietnam \u2013 earning a National Defense Service Medal, a Combat Infantryman Badge, a Vietnam Service Medal, a Vietnam Gallantry Cross w\/Palm, a Vietnam Campaign Medal, 2 Overseas Bars and a Sharpshooter certification with the M14 Rifle.<\/p>\n<p>It shows no awarding of a Purple Heart, Bronze Star or Silver Star, or shows a designation as either an Army Special Forces Soldier (Green Beret) or a Prisoner of War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So how easy it is to get the information, journalists? Only it&#8217;s much more painless if you get the proof BEFORE you publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September, we mentioned a Stolen Valor case that our buddy, JD at Professional Soldiers, was working on, in regards to Armando Cordoba (sounds like a cabana boy, doesn&#8217;t he?). Armando claimed in a local newspaper that he had been a POW of the North vietnamese Army. Average NCO sends us a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}