Fake Marine Caught Lying On Camera - Phony Marine Craig Pusley

Yesterday Modesto News org brought you a story of a Marine Corp Reservist standing guard in front of Hughson Elementary School in Hughson California The man standing guard was in an United States Marine Corps Uniform and called himself Sergeant His story of serving 3 tours in battle being injured in battle and being currently enlisted as a Reserve how now been proven to be false He is now claiming that it is the media that got the story wrong and that he never actually made those claims In this video Modesto News org shows his lies on film so that you can decide Here is an article by the Marine Corps Times today on this story A Marine veteran who made national news for standing guard outside a California school in uniform was accused Thursday of faking his military service but denied he did so Craig Pusley appeared outside Hughson Elementary School in Modesto Calif on Wednesday in a desert camouflage uniform to help children feel safe following the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Conn he said He added that he was inspired in part by another Marine veteran Staff Sgt Jordan Pritchard who made headlines for similar actions at Gower Elementary School in Nashville Tenn Media coverage of Pusley's actions reported that he is 28 years old and got out of the Corps as a sergeant after deploying twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan In reality Pusley graduated from boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego but was in the service less than a year and never made it past private first class Marine officials said He never deployed or made it through military occupational specialty school leaving the Corps designated a basic Marine MOS 8000 Pusley told Marine Corps Times in a phone interview he never lied about his military service blaming the first reporter who interviewed him Nan Austin of The Modesto Bee for getting the story wrong There's a lot of fabrication to this story that didn't come out of my mouth Pusley said All I know is that I talked to a Modesto Bee lady and everything went crazy Photographs show him wearing the rank insignia of a sergeant however Asked about that he said he didn't realize what was on the uniform and borrowed it from someone else He added his old name tapes to the borrowed blouse he said I feel horrible about this he said My intention was for the kids I don't understand why everyone has to find a negative in every situation Pusley didn't have an explanation why Austin would have reported that he went to Iraq and Afghanistan or why it was repeated in subsequent news coverage However he said he is deeply sorry if standing in front of the school in uniform if it offended anyone and has written an email to the White House apologizing He wasn't anticipating a blast of negativity after appearing at the school he said I cannot emphasize enough how sorry I am that all of this has happened he said These were not my intentions This was never supposed to happen Austin could not immediately be reached for comment but The Modesto Bee's editor Joe Kieta said the newspaper stands by her work On Thursday Pusley appeared in front of the school in Modesto again this time out of uniform after it was reported that Marine officials told Pritchard he was not authorized to wear the uniform in front of the school Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Mike Barrett the top enlisted Marine released a statement that he understands Marines' desires to protect children but Marines should not be wearing the uniform outside of rules and regulations Read the rest of the story at the Marine Corps Times website a http 3A 2F 2Fwww ModestoNews org a All Rights Reserved - Copyright 2012

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