{"id":75391,"date":"2017-10-16T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75391"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:25","slug":"mike-faram-phony-marine-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75391","title":{"rendered":"Mike Faram; phony Marine sniper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this Mike Faram<\/a> fellow who calls himself “Gunney”, not knowing how to the spell the shortened form of the Marine Corps rank (Gunny) Gunnery Sergeant.<\/p>\n

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On his Twitter profile<\/a>, Faram claims to be a Marine Corps sniper;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, no, he spent 16 months in the Marine Corps and he was discharged, not as a gunnery sergeant (E-7), but as a private first class (E-2);<\/p>\n

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There’s no sniper training in his records.<\/p>\n

Folks tell us that he tells them that he added the extra “E” to the rank title so people wouldn’t confuse him with R Lee Ermey. Like that would happen.<\/p>\n

Faram goes secret squirrel;<\/p>\n

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Reminder; there are no classified DD214s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us their work on this Mike Faram fellow who calls himself “Gunney”, not knowing how to the spell the shortened form of the Marine Corps rank (Gunny) Gunnery Sergeant. On his Twitter profile, Faram claims to be a Marine Corps sniper; Yeah, no, he spent 16 months in the Marine Corps and he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75392,"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-75391","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\/10\/Mike-Faram.jpg?fit=403%2C444&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jBZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391","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=75391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}