{"id":36358,"date":"2013-06-22T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36358"},"modified":"2013-06-22T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T11:49:44","slug":"donald-atkinson-phony-ranger-in-oregon-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36358","title":{"rendered":"Donald Atkinson; phony Ranger in Oregon, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone found this article in which local businessman, Donald Atkinson, in Oregon, Illinois claimed to be an Army Ranger. I&#8217;m guessing that he figures it will drum him up some more business;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-250x300.jpg?resize=250%2C300\" alt=\"Atkinson\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson.jpg?resize=250%2C300&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson.jpg?w=492&amp;ssl=1 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess he is a Ranger if you think that the Army training program for a Heavy Vehicle driver at Fort Dix, is as grueling as Ranger School;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA-300x296.jpg?resize=300%2C296\" alt=\"Donald Atkinson FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA.jpg?w=539&amp;ssl=1 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>His FOIA says the he was discharged in November of 1974, the 1st Ranger Battalion wasn&#8217;t activated until August 1974 at Fort Benning, GA, then they moved to Fort Stewart, GA. According to Atkinson&#8217;s records, he was at Fort Carson, CO that month;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments-300x223.jpg?resize=300%2C223\" alt=\"Atkinson assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments.jpg?w=732&amp;ssl=1 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone found this article in which local businessman, Donald Atkinson, in Oregon, Illinois claimed to be an Army Ranger. I&#8217;m guessing that he figures it will drum him up some more business; I guess he is a Ranger if you think that the Army training program for a Heavy Vehicle driver at Fort Dix, is [&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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36358","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=36358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}