Ever met someone faking being a military vet? I have one in my family, my uncle, he has been lying for 25 years that he was a marine in panama. I know its a lie positively and he is a crappy person anyway. Somehow he got his name engraved on a brick in a veterans memorial in a town in Ohio. Also, he is an officer in the american legion. I am in the process of outing him. I feel kinda bad but i feel it needs to be done. I told him i was going to do it and he said i better hide. I am not afraid of him. He is a drunk liar, thinks hes tough cause he rides a harley and lies about being a marine. Yeah
Theres this retired Navy dude you can send his info to and he will out him. He has a youtube channel ill post the link here in a bit. I believe what yor uncle is doing is called 'stolen valor'
Yeah. I have been reading about it. It is stolen valor, i seen that. I have a channel i am going thru that i think will work nicely
No but I’m an Air force Vet and I've talked with Veterans from all branches of service who you’d think won the Congressional Medal of Honor ~ sigh~ Hotwater
The medal of honor winners are all so humble. Like someone that brave automatically has impeccable character
i think its kind of a sad commentary on the state of the culture. i spent as little time in the military as i could. the air force did a lot for me that i'm thankful for. but i'm not one who can easily forget the non-romatic side of what the armed forces of any nation are really for. (to kill people who don't need killing so that corporate economic interests can destroy their environments and rob their civil liberties) i went in as a cooperative consciencious objector, because of the viet nam draft. my parents couldn't afford to get me an educational deferment and i didn't have the guts to hitch hike to canada, having at that time, yet to leave the nest on my own. looking back, two and a half years wasn't such a big chunk out of my life, even four wouldn't have been. there have been longer periods in my life then that, which those years were golden compared to. but i was still opposed to all wars then, and still am now.
It's kind of obnoxious for him to pretend to be a vet. On the otherhand, i'm not sure that it's worth the potential harm to out him. There have been cases of fake soldiers killing themselves when they get outed.
I used to tend a bar and we had a visitor once claiming to be SAS Australian. He wore glasses. I remember telling a guy at the bar "I'm pretty sure SAS is like the best of best, if you have to correct your eyesight, I don't think you'd be SAS material.. So the bar guy goes and explains this to the person and that person soon leaves the venue. =D
Thanks for your input. Yeah, he is kinda dangerous and he does have guns but i am 2000 miles away and have on purpose made myself almost impossible to find. Yes, i am thinking he will just end up drinking more than he does now. I thought i loved him but once i got to know him the more i disliked him. He bragged of killing 2 "niggers" last time i was there and also getting a blow job for a buck fifty from a crackwhore downtown. I have no sympathy
Getting head from a crack whore for a buck and a half? Im sorry, But if he ever was or thought about being a marine, Honor and respect went in one ear and out the other! Then goes out of his way or at least boasts about 'killing two niggers'? Sounds like this guys a real piece of shit and only has his alcohol to keep him company. Id send him a gift card. That way he can go and get his knob polished everyday by a crack whore and end up with HIV and HEP. This guy sounds like a real winner, IMO you would be better off letting karma take this one over and watch it un fold as days pass.
I have heard some embellishments before. Funny how all of them are special forces of some kind. Still waiting on fake warriors to get back to me, they ordered his records. I already know what his military records are going to say. He made it about six weeks in army basic trainibg. Claiming to be a Marine from panama. Lying for 25 years he is going down. He will want to kill me, i will invite him to duel.
It's not illegal to falsely claim to be a vet, but if you use that to benefit in any way such as accepting some honor, assistance, joining a veteran's organization, or even something so simple as a discount at Applebee's it's fraud. It's theft. Crossing that line makes it a crime. As for joining the American Legion he could also be guilty of forging federal documents. I had to provide a copy of my DD-214 to join the Legion. If he forged a DD-214 he should go to jail. That's no small offense. It's a federal crime. Not only did he need to provide a copy of his DD-214 but it had to show an Honorable Discharge. If the OP's uncle was discharged after six weeks of Basic Training as indicated, then he didn't receive an Honorable Discharge. He received an ELS (Entry Level Separation) which basically means "Inability to adapt". It's not an Honorable, General, or Dishonorable discharge....it means his time in Basic doesn't count at all. Either way, you have to serve 180 days to attain veteran status so six weeks doesn't quite cut it. It's easy to prove. Until last year the Legion was required to keep copies of its members DD-214's. That rule changed after the IRS was outed as using DD-214's as an excuse to target veteran's organizations (sound familiar?). I suspect they'll still hang on to them as DC is a fickle place. A DD-214 for those who don't know is the only legally binding document that constitutes proof of military service. The "Honorable Discharge" certificate is just eye candy. DD-214 indicates dates of service, medals and awards, rank at separation, military schools, and discharge status (Honorable, General, Other than Honorable, and if found guilty under courts-martial could include Bad Conduct Discharge or Dishonorable Discharge). If a poser commits suicide it points to much larger problems that have nothing to do with their wannabe status. Posers should be outed, and if they benefited from their false claims should be prosecuted.
