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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSomeone uncovered some photos from somewhere of our old friend Derek Church<\/a>, “The Round Ranger” who thought that it was safe for him to go back in the Stolen Valor waters;<\/p>\n If you have forgotten his back story, he got married in the phony finery at the top of the page, and of course we spotted it right off. When we got his records, we discovered that he had five weeks on active duty and never completed Basic Combat Training. When he was made famous, he tried to sockpuppet his way out of it – his sockpuppet, Wil Chamberlin vouched for his service. His wife piled on, but we were relentless, finally he fessed up to it. I guess he figures that we’d forgot about him;<\/p>\n But who can forget his baggy-ass drawers?<\/p>\n Welcome back to the Thunderdome, Derek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone uncovered some photos from somewhere of our old friend Derek Church, “The Round Ranger” who thought that it was safe for him to go back in the Stolen Valor waters; If you have forgotten his back story, he got married in the phony finery at the top of the page, and of course we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39187,"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-73293","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\/2014\/01\/Derek-Church3.jpg?fit=544%2C665&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-j49","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73293","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=73293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Derek-Church-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\")
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