{"id":52710,"date":"2014-07-01T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52710"},"modified":"2015-07-11T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T23:53:13","slug":"leonard-frank-goethals-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52710","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Frank Goethals; Phony Vietnam Vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

So one of our new friends send us their work on Leonard Frank Goethals from Delavan, WI who regales his friends and family with tales of his service in the Marine Corps through 35 years;<\/p>\n

Retired as a Captain
\nService Claims:
\nVietnam, Cobra pilot – Shot down and captured – POW 3 years – rescued by 2nd Armored or 1st Cav depending on the day
\nHe says that when he crashed, his co-pilots head was severed and it fell into his lap. He also has a 2nd Armored tattoo. Drives around with an SF vinyl sticker as well as a 1st Cav sticker. Supposedly his family was notified that he was KIA but his remains were not recovered so they had a funeral without his body.
\nGrenada – Flew Cobra’s
\nPanama – Flew Cobra’s
\nGulf War – Flew Cobra’s
\nAfghanistan – Deployed late 2001 or early 2002. Sometimes he claimed as a pilot, sometimes SF.
\nBurnham, Indiana Police Department – Undercover work and helicopter pilot
\nIndiana State police – Helicopter pilot
\nIllinois State Police – Helicopter Pilot
\nChicago Police – Undercover work, SWAT and narcotics – Confirmed through CPD friends that he was never CPD.<\/p>\n

He says something happened and that is the reason he cannot make VA claims and why he receives no pension or benefits. When questioned, says that he cannot talk about it. He uses an old expired ID to get discounts on food, internet, phone service, tools, hardware and anything else he can.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or maybe he doesn’t get a pension and benefits because he spent less than 80 days in the Navy (not the Marines – the Marines have never heard of him);<\/p>\n

\"Leonard<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Leonard<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Apparently. he’s been cultivating this little fantasy for more than 40 years – through his whole pretend career. Well, until Al Gore invented the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So one of our new friends send us their work on Leonard Frank Goethals from Delavan, WI who regales his friends and family with tales of his service in the Marine Corps through 35 years; Retired as a Captain Service Claims: Vietnam, Cobra pilot – Shot down and captured – POW 3 years – rescued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52711,"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-52710","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\/2014\/06\/Leonard-Goethals.jpg?fit=1944%2C2592&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-dIa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52710","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=52710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}