{"id":64684,"date":"2016-03-05T07:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64684"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:11","slug":"charles-jenkins-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64684","title":{"rendered":"Charles Jenkins Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charles<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

In July of last year, we mistakenly posted that the National Personnel Records Center sent us a “no service” letter on Charles Jenkins<\/a>. We had filed twice for his records, because we thought that he did have service, but the NPRC told us twice that he didn’t. Well, the third time’s the charm. He did have service in Vietnam for a year (Sept. 1965 – Sept 1966) with the 2\/503 Infantry and the 173rd Airborne Brigade, he did earn the jump wings and the Combat Infantry Badge that he’s wearing in photos. He also earned a Purple Heart and an Army Commendation Medal with a Valor device. But, he was not a POW for the “3 years, 9 months and 27 days” that he claimed in the newspaper article<\/a> that brought him to our attention in the first place. <\/p>\n

\"Charles<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Charles<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

We apologize to Mr Jenkins for mistakenly claiming he wasn’t a veteran, but we don’t regret calling him out since he wasn’t a POW – and that’s what made us look at him in the first place. We wonder why he thought that he needed to add that lie to his otherwise admirable resume. I edited the original post to reflect this new information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July of last year, we mistakenly posted that the National Personnel Records Center sent us a “no service” letter on Charles Jenkins. We had filed twice for his records, because we thought that he did have service, but the NPRC told us twice that he didn’t. Well, the third time’s the charm. He did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61005,"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-64684","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\/07\/Charles-Jenkins.jpg?fit=316%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gPi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684","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=64684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}