{"id":84129,"date":"2019-01-12T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84129"},"modified":"2019-01-12T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:09:22","slug":"fire-chief-applicant-forged-military-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84129","title":{"rendered":"Fire Chief Applicant Forged Military Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hume.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84130\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hume.jpg?resize=219%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hume.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hume.jpg?resize=243%2C333&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hume.jpg?w=385&amp;ssl=1 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/crime--law\/marietta-fire-chief-applicant-gets-probation-for-forging-military-record\/9gihZWfa2PQvQe8nQPholM\/?fbclid=IwAR2bGzye0UlWUSSuLWAvI7wCcXCYJSUvv34QP1ZWtPU29W66S6k5z-vr1xo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>, a Marietta Fire Chief applicant forged his military records.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p\">Robert Kenneth Hume, of Campo, Calif., pleaded guilty to forgery and false representation of a veteran. He was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and sentenced as a first offender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p\">Hume claimed that during his time in the U.S. Army he was awarded medals he did not receive, including a Silver Star, Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He made the claim last April when he submitted an application to Marietta for the then-vacant fire chief position,\u00a0The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He was sentenced to 10 years probation.\u00a0 Since Hume is from California, his sentence was transferred to his home state.<\/p>\n<p>Jonn Lilyea of TAH previously wrote about Hume here and here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79119<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79056<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Mason for contributing to the accuracy of this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Marietta Fire Chief applicant forged his military records. Robert Kenneth Hume, of Campo, Calif., pleaded guilty to forgery and false representation of a veteran. He was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and sentenced as a first offender. Hume claimed that during his time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":84130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hume.jpg?fit=385%2C528&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-lSV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84129","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}