{"id":63307,"date":"2015-12-15T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63307"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:52","slug":"thomas-michael-good-phony-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63307","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Michael Good; phony Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=63308\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63308\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Thomas-Good.jpg?resize=83%2C129\" alt=\"Thomas Good\" width=\"83\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63308\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone contacted us a few weeks ago about this Thomas Good fellow in Pittsburgh, PA, who is wandering around telling whoever will listen that he&#8217;s a former Marine, that he has a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star. That he led the invasion into Kuwait during the Gulf War, that he&#8217;s veteran of OIF. He sat down with a school kid and did an interview for the boy&#8217;s Veterans&#8217; Day project, in which he told the child that he had been a Captain with a Recon unit and that he was wounded in his leg.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the National Personnel Records Center and the Marine Corps would disagree with him;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=63310\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63310\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Thomas-Michael-Good-USMC-FOIA-251x300.jpg?resize=251%2C300\" alt=\"Thomas Michael Good USMC FOIA\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Thomas-Michael-Good-USMC-FOIA.jpg?resize=251%2C300&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Thomas-Michael-Good-USMC-FOIA.jpg?resize=279%2C333&amp;ssl=1 279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Thomas-Michael-Good-USMC-FOIA.jpg?w=553&amp;ssl=1 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nope not one minute in the Marine Corps. According to the person who contacted us, he uses his phony story to be a &#8220;veteran hire&#8221; for employers. Well, he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=63311\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63311\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender-115x300.jpg?resize=115%2C300\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"115\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender.jpg?resize=115%2C300&amp;ssl=1 115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FullSizeRender.jpg?w=128&amp;ssl=1 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 115px) 100vw, 115px\" \/><\/a><center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone contacted us a few weeks ago about this Thomas Good fellow in Pittsburgh, PA, who is wandering around telling whoever will listen that he&#8217;s a former Marine, that he has a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star. That he led the invasion into Kuwait during the Gulf War, that he&#8217;s veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63308,"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-63307","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\/12\/Thomas-Good.jpg?fit=83%2C129&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gt5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63307","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=63307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}