{"id":38175,"date":"2013-10-29T08:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38175"},"modified":"2013-10-29T08:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:13:41","slug":"george-t-bolis-phony-seal-corpsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38175","title":{"rendered":"George T. Bolis; phony SEAL corpsman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Scotty sends us<\/a> his research on George T. Bolis who actually did do 22 years in the Navy. He had a pretty exciting career, but I guess it wasn’t exciting enough for him. He told his former classmates that he was a corpsman for a SEAL Team in Vietnam and regaled them with tales of being wounded in that endeavor. <\/p>\n

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

I guess that tale got him more attention than being a supply clerk;<\/p>\n

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

Yes, he served in Vietnam, but there’s no Purple Heart;<\/p>\n

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

But, there was a perfectly logical explanation for why the medal doesn’t appear in his records – he wasn’t awarded the medal until twenty years after his injury;<\/p>\n

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

Makes perfect sense, I suppose, or not at all. I’m pretty sure his SEAL Team was pretty upset that their corpsman was only trained as a supply clerk, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scotty sends us his research on George T. Bolis who actually did do 22 years in the Navy. He had a pretty exciting career, but I guess it wasn’t exciting enough for him. He told his former classmates that he was a corpsman for a SEAL Team in Vietnam and regaled them with tales of […]<\/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-38175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9VJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175","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=38175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}