{"id":57654,"date":"2015-01-14T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57654"},"modified":"2015-01-14T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:05:02","slug":"alan-soto-phony-sf-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57654","title":{"rendered":"Alan Soto; phony SF soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57660\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57660\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto.jpg?resize=275%2C186\" alt=\"Alan Soto\" width=\"275\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57660\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We got a hold of this Alan Soto fellow somehow; he claims that he was a special forces first sergeant with twenty years of service and you can see in the photo that he has a Combat Infantryman Badge along with some Vietnam service medals and it looks like there&#8217;s a Meritorious Service medal and a Silver Star in there, too.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57657\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-claims-300x155.jpg?resize=300%2C155\" alt=\"Alan Soto claims\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-claims.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-claims.jpg?resize=500%2C259&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-claims.jpg?w=1870&amp;ssl=1 1870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The person who sent this to us also sent a FOIA, but it looked strange because the FOIA came back not with Army service, but rather with Air Force service. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57658\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Alan Soto FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA.jpg?resize=332%2C333&amp;ssl=1 332w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA.jpg?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So I sent the address he was using to Mary to see if she came up with something different, and she didn&#8217;t;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57659\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA2-300x295.jpg?resize=300%2C295\" alt=\"Alan Soto FOIA2\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA2.jpg?resize=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA2.jpg?resize=338%2C333&amp;ssl=1 338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-FOIA2.jpg?w=491&amp;ssl=1 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He was a security policeman with the Air Force in Florida during the Vietnam War, not that anything wrong with that. What makes it wrong is pinning on an entirely different uniform than the one you wore when you served, like Mister Soto here did.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57656\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments-300x88.jpg?resize=300%2C88\" alt=\"Alan Soto Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments.jpg?resize=300%2C88&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments.jpg?resize=500%2C147&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments.jpg?w=628&amp;ssl=1 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57655\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57655\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments-2-300x69.jpg?resize=300%2C69\" alt=\"Alan Soto Assignments 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments-2.jpg?resize=300%2C69&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments-2.jpg?resize=500%2C116&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto-Assignments-2.jpg?w=793&amp;ssl=1 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a hold of this Alan Soto fellow somehow; he claims that he was a special forces first sergeant with twenty years of service and you can see in the photo that he has a Combat Infantryman Badge along with some Vietnam service medals and it looks like there&#8217;s a Meritorious Service medal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57660,"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-57654","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\/2015\/01\/Alan-Soto.jpg?fit=275%2C186&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eZU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57654","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=57654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}