{"id":79532,"date":"2018-05-20T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79532"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:45","slug":"charles-sitton-phony-navy-cross-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79532","title":{"rendered":"Charles Sitton; phony Navy Cross recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this Charles Sitton fellow who hands out a forged DD214 that says he earned the Navy Cross while he was snoopin’ and poopin’ in Vietnam;<\/p>\n

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He also did an interview in his local press, The Suburbanite<\/a>, claiming to be Navy Lieutenant and thrice wounded in combat;<\/p>\n

For the next three months he was commissioned to a PBR 523 as the commanding officer with an eight-man crew. Then he was on a PBF (Patrol Boat Fast) running recon insertion missions to North Vietnam. The PBF was an 80-foot boat that could do 62 knots on the water (approximately 70 mph).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recon teams would take money and medicine in to persuade North Vietnamese to come over to the other side. They took the money and the medicine but didn\u2019t change sides,\u201d Sitton said.<\/p>\n

Sitton earned three Purple Heart medals while in Vietnam. The first was for a mortar fire attack in DaNang, South Vietnam. The second came when he was shot in the wrist while in Dong Hoi, North Vietnam while loading a wounded Marine aboard. When back in DaNang, he came under fire and was shot in the hand when returning fire which earned him the third Purple Heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to his actual records, he served on the USS Tombigbee (AOG-11), a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker, in the coastal waters of Vietnam in 1966 which earned him the Vietnam Service Medal;<\/p>\n

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No Purple Hearts, no Lieutenant, no Navy Cross, no patrol boats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us their work on this Charles Sitton fellow who hands out a forged DD214 that says he earned the Navy Cross while he was snoopin’ and poopin’ in Vietnam; He also did an interview in his local press, The Suburbanite, claiming to be Navy Lieutenant and thrice wounded in combat; For the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79533,"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-79532","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\/2018\/05\/Charles-Sitton.jpg?fit=288%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-kGM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79532","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=79532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}