{"id":72236,"date":"2017-05-23T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72236"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:39","slug":"wilfred-henry-belanger-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72236","title":{"rendered":"Wilfred Henry Belanger; phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on the strange case of Wilfred Henry Belanger, known locally as Butch Belanger<\/a>, the postmaster in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Butch claims to be a retired Naval officer and commander of SEAL Team Six with 21 years of service;<\/p>\n

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So here comes the strange part; Wilfred did have military service as a Recon Marine for nine years, according to the National Personnel Center;<\/p>\n

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It looks like he even graduated from Army Ranger School in addition to being a Recon Marine, but he chose to be a SEAL team commander rather than boast about things he had actually accomplished. <\/p>\n

The Navy said “Who?”<\/p>\n

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I don’t explain ’em, I just report on ’em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on the strange case of Wilfred Henry Belanger, known locally as Butch Belanger, the postmaster in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Butch claims to be a retired Naval officer and commander of SEAL Team Six with 21 years of service; So here comes the strange part; Wilfred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72237,"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-72236","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\/2017\/05\/butch2.jpg?fit=464%2C671&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-iN6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72236","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=72236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}