{"id":75497,"date":"2017-10-21T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75497"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:24","slug":"elijah-warden-phony-green-beret-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75497","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Warden; phony Green Beret, phony Vietnam Vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our partners at the Guardians of the Green Beret<\/a> share their work on this Elijah “Eli” Warden<\/a> fellow who claims that he’s a Sergeant Major, a Special Forces soldier who was wounded and served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

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You just know he’s legit because he plays in a band and he wears his Green Beret on stage – and, oh, there’s a vest involved. What kind of jerk would do all of that if he wasn’t legitimate;<\/p>\n

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Well, a jerk like Eli would, I guess. He spent about seven months in the Army during Vietnam, but he never left the US. His only award is the National Defense Service Medal. His rank when he left was Private not CSMAJ, whatever that is.<\/p>\n

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Our partners at the Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this Elijah “Eli” Warden fellow who claims that he’s a Sergeant Major, a Special Forces soldier who was wounded and served in Vietnam. You just know he’s legit because he plays in a band and he wears his Green Beret on stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75498,"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-75497","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\/Elijah-Warden-5.jpg?fit=642%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jDH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75497","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=75497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}