{"id":62915,"date":"2015-11-23T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62915"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:53","slug":"randy-ray-ward-phony-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62915","title":{"rendered":"Randy Ray Ward; phony Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phonies<\/a> send us their work on this fellow, Randy Ray Ward<\/a>, who claims to be a survivor of the Beirut bombing in October 1983.<\/p>\n

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He has a still-growing rack of ribbons, probably because the Marine Corps is still discovering his derring-do years afterward;<\/p>\n

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But, no, he spent about a month in the Marine Corps, according to the National Personnel Records Center from January to February 1982;<\/p>\n

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No combat, no awards, pretty much no service. But he beats the PTSD drum a lot and he blames it on his non-existent combat service, I’m guessing that he does that for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow, Randy Ray Ward, who claims to be a survivor of the Beirut bombing in October 1983. He has a still-growing rack of ribbons, probably because the Marine Corps is still discovering his derring-do years afterward; But, no, he spent about a month in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Randy-Ray-Ward-cap.jpg?fit=282%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gmL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915","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=62915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}