{"id":75939,"date":"2017-11-14T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75939"},"modified":"2017-11-14T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:22:44","slug":"army-says-that-marc-dominguez-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75939","title":{"rendered":"Army says that Marc Dominguez served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=75906\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75906\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dominguez-291x300.jpg?resize=291%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dominguez.jpg?resize=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dominguez.jpg?resize=323%2C333&amp;ssl=1 323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dominguez.jpg?w=643&amp;ssl=1 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75905\">On Saturday<\/a>, we talked about Marc Dominguez, the fellow in San Diego who was wearing his uniform improperly when he was confronted by some servicemembers who recognized his improper wear. <\/p>\n<p>At the time we speculated that he probably wasn&#8217;t a veteran given the way he wore everything perfectly wrong, but the Army told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/Gaslamp-Veterans-Day-Stabbing-Uniform-Army-Uniform-457250993.html\">NBC 7 San Diego<\/a> that he had indeed served briefly;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marc Dominguez, 42, served from February 2003 to August 2004 as a Private First Class E-3, according to military officials.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Pentagon officials confirmed that as an infantryman, Dominguez received the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An infantryman with his blue cord on the wrong arm. Blasphemy. No blue disks, and it looks like the brass on his collar isn&#8217;t infantry branch. That name tag goes on the other pocket and his marksman badge goes on the pocket flap. He was a Private First Class, so he knows that rank on the Marine Corps cap is upside down.<\/p>\n<p>He got all stabby about the public uniform corrections, and his victim was cut on the arm. I guess we know why his time in the Army was so brief (18 months). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we talked about Marc Dominguez, the fellow in San Diego who was wearing his uniform improperly when he was confronted by some servicemembers who recognized his improper wear. At the time we speculated that he probably wasn&#8217;t a veteran given the way he wore everything perfectly wrong, but the Army told NBC 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Dominguez.jpg?fit=643%2C662&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jKP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75939","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=75939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}