{"id":19898,"date":"2013-04-18T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:46:43","slug":"pvfw-heroically-takes-the-fight-back-to-disparaging-military-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/pvfw-heroically-takes-the-fight-back-to-disparaging-military-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"PVFW heroically takes the fight back to disparaging military bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to admire their willingness to continue their fight<\/a> against reality:<\/p>\n

The Phony Veterans of Foreign Wars, the nation\u2019s leading military fakers\u2019 organization \u2014 representing fake members from all service branches \u2014 has gone on the offensive in the fight against military bloggers.<\/p>\n

PVFW fired back with a public relations offensive, speaking with reporters and establishing a password-protected blog on their website devoted to peer-reviewed development of members\u2019 stories of their superhuman valor and heroism.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of these milbloggers\u2019 relentless assault on our First Amendment-protected right to lie about brief, unglamorous or nonexistent military service,\u201d PVFW chairman Michael Spurwick told reporters, \u201cseveral of our members have suffered irreparable damage to their reputations, and a few have even had their businesses and careers ruined, after being exposed as frauds. Something had to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spurwick, a former Army sergeant, who was promoted to General before retiring as a Captain, has a long and impressive career of made-up military service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost a lot of good men out there,\u201d Spurwick said. \u201cI don\u2019t really like to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in 1965, he\u2019s a veteran of every U.S. military action since his birth, from the Vietnam War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Boasting unearned Special Forces and Ranger tabs, Spurwick served with both Delta Force and the Rangers during Operation Gothic Serpent in Mogadishu, Somalia. He\u2019s participated in every combat parachute jump since 1967, when, at just fifteen months of age, he parachuted into North Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne during Operation Junction City \u2014 as well as a top-secret high altitude, high opening jump from the International Space Station during OEF VI and a LANO (low-altitude, no-opening) jump from a B-1 bomber during OIF V.<\/p>\n

[Editor’s note: According to Spurwick’s DD214, obtained by The Duffel Blog through a FOIA request, he was discharged from the Army in 1986 during basic training at Fort Sill, Okla., as an E-2.]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure there is — or soon will be — an anti-bullying law of some stripe that will allow these brave imaginary heroes to launch legal counter-attacks against those who would deny them the ability to wear uniforms, medals, badges, and awards to which they have no actual right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to admire their willingness to continue their fight against reality: The Phony Veterans of Foreign Wars, the nation\u2019s leading military fakers\u2019 organization \u2014 representing fake members from all service branches \u2014 has gone on the offensive in the fight against military bloggers. PVFW fired back with a public relations offensive, speaking with reporters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,5,13],"tags":[145,31,204,30,463,51],"class_list":["post-19898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-usa","tag-airforce","tag-army","tag-blogging","tag-navy","tag-parody","tag-pr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19900,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions\/19900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}