{"id":60327,"date":"2015-06-12T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60327"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:27:03","slug":"kevin-paul-kowalkowski-another-phony-beirut-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60327","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Paul Kowalkowski; another phony Beirut Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=60328\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60328\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Kevin-Paul-210x300.jpg?resize=210%2C300\" alt=\"Kowalkowski, Kevin Paul\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Kevin-Paul.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Kevin-Paul.jpg?w=215&amp;ssl=1 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphonies.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/11\/kevin-paul-kowalkowski-24th-meu-recon-marine-beirut-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> has a full-time Beirut historian on the payroll now, so all those phony Beirut Marines had better tuck tail. Their latest bust is this Kevin Paul Kowalkowski fellow who did indeed serve honorably in the Marine Corps for eight years (four active, four in the Reserves), but he joined in July 1983, just three months before the Beirut bombing, that&#8217;s not enough time to go through initial training and deploy.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=60329\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60329\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PM-300x228.jpg?resize=300%2C228\" alt=\"PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PM.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PM.jpg?resize=438%2C333&amp;ssl=1 438w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PM.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=60332\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60332\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-FOIA-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"Kowalkowski FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-FOIA.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-FOIA.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-FOIA.jpg?w=1275&amp;ssl=1 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=60330\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60330\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-assignments-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"Kowalkowski assignments\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-assignments.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-assignments.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-assignments.jpg?w=1275&amp;ssl=1 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=60331\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60331\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Awards-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"Kowalkowski Awards\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Awards.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Awards.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kowalkowski-Awards.jpg?w=1275&amp;ssl=1 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I was in the military at the same time as the Beirut bombings, I was at Fort Hood and in the Army, though, but I guess I can claim that I am a Beirut veteran, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Military Phonies has a full-time Beirut historian on the payroll now, so all those phony Beirut Marines had better tuck tail. Their latest bust is this Kevin Paul Kowalkowski fellow who did indeed serve honorably in the Marine Corps for eight years (four active, four in the Reserves), but he joined in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60333,"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-60327","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\/06\/Kowalkowski-Kevin-Paul1.jpg?fit=216%2C278&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fH1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60327","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=60327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}