{"id":64318,"date":"2016-02-13T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64318"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:13","slug":"allen-downing-phony-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64318","title":{"rendered":"Allen Downing; phony Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64320\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Allen Downing\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing.jpg?resize=250%2C333&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2016\/02\/12\/allen-s-downing-us-army-ranger-special-forces-75th-rangers-2nd-lt-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allen.downing1\">Allen Downing<\/a> fellow. He claims that he was in the Army on Facebook, and in person, he&#8217;ll tell you how he was lieutenant in the 75th Rangers during the operations in Somalia;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64319\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64319\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing-FB-300x146.jpg?resize=300%2C146\" alt=\"Allen Downing FB\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing-FB.jpg?resize=300%2C146&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing-FB.jpg?resize=768%2C375&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing-FB.jpg?resize=500%2C244&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing-FB.jpg?w=853&amp;ssl=1 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64322\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gowning-claim-300x121.jpg?resize=300%2C121\" alt=\"Downing claim\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gowning-claim.jpg?resize=300%2C121&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gowning-claim.jpg?resize=500%2C202&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gowning-claim.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Of course, he also implies that he earned a Purple Heart there;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64323\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-purple-heart-300x184.jpg?resize=300%2C184\" alt=\"downing-purple-heart\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-purple-heart.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-purple-heart.jpg?resize=768%2C471&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-purple-heart.jpg?resize=500%2C307&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-purple-heart.jpg?w=985&amp;ssl=1 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, no. The National Personnel Records Center says &#8220;Who?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=64321\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64321\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-foia-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"downing-foia\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-foia.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-foia.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-foia.jpg?resize=257%2C333&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/downing-foia.jpg?w=1275&amp;ssl=1 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Military Phony send us their work on this Allen Downing fellow. He claims that he was in the Army on Facebook, and in person, he&#8217;ll tell you how he was lieutenant in the 75th Rangers during the operations in Somalia; Of course, he also implies that he earned a Purple Heart there; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64320,"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-64318","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\/2016\/02\/Allen-Downing.jpg?fit=720%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gJo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64318","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=64318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}