{"id":36899,"date":"2013-08-01T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36899"},"modified":"2013-08-01T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:55:09","slug":"mark-laarveld-phony-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36899","title":{"rendered":"Mark Laarveld; phony Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mark<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Mary sent us this guy who she says is like the Energizer bunny. When he thinks that the heat is off, he pops back up again. So he needs an internet style beat down. His name is Mark Jerome Laarveld and he claims that he was a Ranger from 1986 to 1994, in reality, he was a cannoncocker in Baumholder. Scotty<\/a> has more details. But here are the basics; he did three years in Germany and was released from active duty as an E-2;<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a>
\n\"Mark<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

That little career makes him eligible to be a Ranger in his tiny little mind;<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

And, oh, yeah, he calls himself “Combat Survivor<\/a>” on his Facebook page, ya know even though there wasn’t any combat during his active service. And he thinks he’s Brian Urlacher, too;<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Yeah, he’s somewhere in Illinois, so walk right up and introduce yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary sent us this guy who she says is like the Energizer bunny. When he thinks that the heat is off, he pops back up again. So he needs an internet style beat down. His name is Mark Jerome Laarveld and he claims that he was a Ranger from 1986 to 1994, in reality, he […]<\/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-36899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899","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=36899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}