{"id":72271,"date":"2017-05-24T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72271"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T19:29:21","slug":"anthony-gordon-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72271","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Gordon, phony Vietnam veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our partners at Military Phonies<\/a> share their work on Anthony Gordon<\/a> who claims that he was the last Marine to leave Saigon and that only moments before his evacuation, he was engaged in a brutal battle with communist forces in Cambodia.<\/p>\n

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He claimed to be in the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit\/Force (MEU); not possible according to Military Phonies;<\/p>\n

…the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit was not activated until December 1, 1982. It is and has always been assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, The division is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and headquartered at Julian C. Smith Hall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The USMC doesn’t remember Mr Gordon’s career the way he remembers it;<\/p>\n

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The summary sheet and chronological record show that Mr Anthony Tyrone Gordon entered Marine Boot Camp in July of 1973. He was released from active duty on November 9, 1973 and assigned to a Marine Reserve unit stationed in Willow Grove Pennsylvania as a 3371 Cook. Mr Gordon held that MOS until August 7. 1976. at which time Mr Gordon was re-assigned with the Marine MOS of 3531 Motor Vechicle Operator. He served as a 3531 until his discharge on Aug. 5, 1985.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, no Viet of the Nam service, no memorable firefights in Cambodia, no lasting bootprint on the roof of the Saigon US embassy. He did volunteer for military service when most of his generation wouldn’t – but that wasn’t good enough. He had to alter the entire history of the end of the Vietnam War by placing himself and his unit in Cambodia while the communists rolled tanks through the streets of Saigon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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