{"id":89053,"date":"2019-07-19T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89053"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:52","slug":"les-brown-fake-special-forces-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89053","title":{"rendered":"Les Brown – Fake Special Forces Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on Lester Kent Brown<\/a>, who simply goes by “Les.”\u00a0 Les heads up a Nevada chapter of a POW\/MIA organization.<\/p>\n

Les has been in the newspaper<\/a> where the article states he is a retired Master Sergeant having served in the Army for 20 years.<\/p>\n

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He also has been spotted in a veteran’s vest showing the MSG rank, several Special Forces crests, the RANGER tab, a Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) and a patch designating him as a veteran of Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

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Well, his official military records tell a different story…<\/p>\n

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Brown got out as a Specialist vs. his claim of Master Sergeant (E-8).<\/p>\n

He did not retire after 20 years. His summary sheet said he was discharged vs. retired.<\/p>\n

Brown does not have the Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB) under his awards and he does not have the medals or assignments that would support his claim of being in Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

He also does not have an assignment to any Special Forces units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Military Phony send us their work on Lester Kent Brown, who simply goes by “Les.”\u00a0 Les heads up a Nevada chapter of a POW\/MIA organization. Les has been in the newspaper where the article states he is a retired Master Sergeant having served in the Army for 20 years. He also has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":89054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armyposer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/brown-folded-flag.jpg?fit=994%2C836&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-nal","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89053","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}