{"id":57995,"date":"2015-02-01T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57995"},"modified":"2015-02-01T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:48:53","slug":"mark-steven-paffrath-cnns-navy-cross-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57995","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steven Paffrath; CNN&#8217;s Navy Cross phony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57996\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-300x268.jpg?resize=300%2C268\" alt=\"Mark Paffrath\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath.jpg?resize=300%2C268&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath.jpg?resize=372%2C333&amp;ssl=1 372w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath.jpg?w=406&amp;ssl=1 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chip sent us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/18\/us\/ferguson-hotel-employee\/index.html?sr=tw111814ferguson7aVODtopPhoto\">CNN article<\/a> about this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mark.paffrath.58\">Mark Steven Paffrath<\/a> fellow who was apparently fired for posting pictures of Federal Protective Services vehicles in the hotel where he worked during the Ferguson thing back in November. During the interview with the Navy veteran, the CNN crews shows this photo of Paffrath during his Navy years;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57997\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-CNN-300x179.jpg?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"Mark Paffrath CNN\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-CNN.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-CNN.jpg?resize=500%2C299&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-CNN.jpg?w=804&amp;ssl=1 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a Navy Cross, a Silver Star and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. Obviously, he thinks more of his time in service than the Navy thinks of his service;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57998\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-FOIA-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"Mark Paffrath FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-FOIA.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-FOIA.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-FOIA.jpg?w=1020&amp;ssl=1 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=57999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57999\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-Assignments-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"Mark Paffrath Assignments\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-Assignments.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-Assignments.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mark-Paffrath-Assignments.jpg?w=1020&amp;ssl=1 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Paffrath was discharged after four years of honorable service as an E-3 CSSN, a <del datetime=\"2015-02-01T14:48:07+00:00\">Seaman, Commissaryman Striker (whatever the hell that is)<\/del> culinary specialist (a cook). It looks like he had a float in the Persian Gulf in the USS Comstock, but there is no foreign service, so he never got his feet dry in the War Against Terror. He couldn&#8217;t be proud of his actual service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip sent us a link to a CNN article about this Mark Steven Paffrath fellow who was apparently fired for posting pictures of Federal Protective Services vehicles in the hotel where he worked during the Ferguson thing back in November. During the interview with the Navy veteran, the CNN crews shows this photo of Paffrath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57996,"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-57995","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\/02\/Mark-Paffrath.jpg?fit=406%2C363&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-f5p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57995","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=57995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}