{"id":44287,"date":"2014-04-21T08:19:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T12:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44287"},"modified":"2014-04-21T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T12:19:19","slug":"earl-l-johnson-baltimore-phony-ranger-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44287","title":{"rendered":"Earl L. Johnson; Baltimore phony Ranger revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36620\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36620\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Johnson-in-Baltimore-300x204.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"Johnson in Baltimore\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Johnson-in-Baltimore.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Johnson-in-Baltimore.jpg?w=382&amp;ssl=1 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We wrote about Earl L. Johnson nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36619\">a year ago<\/a> when the Baltimore Sun wrote about him. He was telling the story about being a Ranger and serving in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He later admitted to the Sun that he had served for about a year and mumbled something about Afghanistan. His real story is that he went AWOL after a few months in the Army, then he was arrested for an armed robbery, and dropped from the rolls while he waited for a year for the trial, which ended up going his way. Here&#8217;s his FOIA;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=44289\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44289\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Earl-Johnson-FOIA-224x300.jpg?resize=224%2C300\" alt=\"Earl Johnson FOIA\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Earl-Johnson-FOIA.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Earl-Johnson-FOIA.jpg?resize=249%2C333&amp;ssl=1 249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Earl-Johnson-FOIA.jpg?w=844&amp;ssl=1 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, Johnson wasn&#8217;t in Afghanistan, he was in jail in Prince George&#8217;s County, Maryland. And he wouldn&#8217;t have been arrested in PG County, if he hadn&#8217;t been AWOL. Now, this Wes Moore guy is doing a documentary for PBS called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/coming-back-with-wes-moore\/home\/\">Coming Back<\/a>&#8221; about veterans returning from war and making it in the real world, and they&#8217;re including Earl Johnson in the documentary. <\/p>\n<p>Moore, also a veteran, has been made aware of Johnson&#8217;s misconduct and his lies about his military service, but he&#8217;s including Johnson in his documentary regardless, I guess because he couldn&#8217;t find a real war veteran, you know, because there are only a few hundred thousand. Or maybe it&#8217;s because phony stories are more compelling than real stories.<\/p>\n<p>But now you know the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about Earl L. Johnson nearly a year ago when the Baltimore Sun wrote about him. He was telling the story about being a Ranger and serving in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He later admitted to the Sun that he had served for about a year and mumbled something about Afghanistan. His real story is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36620,"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-44287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Johnson-in-Baltimore.jpg?fit=382%2C261&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-bwj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44287","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=44287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}