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red-beard 09-22-2011 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Rapewta (Post 6268538)
"Stolen Valor" is a serious crime. Impersonators are arrested and charged with a felony. The law went into effect during the Bush administration.
A lot of people use this false claim for benefit of all sorts.
The worse are the fake SEALs.
Check out Don Shipley's "Stolen Valor" on youtube.

There is a fake Seal that still continues to tell stories. We confronted him, with the Veriseal information, and he then said he "worked with" Seals, driving the boats.

BS, he said he was in Desert Storm and swam in the Kuwaiti waters!

Now he is back at it again, on a different board.


One thing about Sniper, he may have been a nut-ball, but he never claimed to be more in the Army than he was.

tabs 09-22-2011 08:04 AM

He11 at one time I was a General....a GENERAL LATRINE ORDERLY...

I wouldn't be so quick to claim I was a General or Admiral....all it shows is how far you can and how good you are at sticking your nose up your superiors azz...

M.D. Holloway 09-22-2011 08:33 AM

I'm a general...generally regarded as a nincomepoop!

Nail the guys arse to the wall David! many a brave man and women fought for your freedom under the services flags of these United States. Anyone claiming to be of such caliber best be telling the truth or suffer...

azasadny 09-22-2011 09:42 AM

If everyone who claimed it was telling the truth, almost everyone in the US military would be in Special Forces, SEALs, etc... I swear every time someone tells me their son/father/brother/friend is/was in the military, they always say they did "top secret" stuff and couldn't talk about it. I don't like it one bit. I was just a peon in the military, like many, many others...

techweenie 09-22-2011 03:44 PM

More than a couple elected officials have been found out... In the Internet age, it seems incredibly stupid to make that kind of claim.

But then when I was growing up, my parents knew a guy who worked at several hospitals and ultimately set up a prominent plastic surgery clinic -- who had never gone to medical school.

GH85Carrera 09-22-2011 04:17 PM

Impersonating a General
 
On the job training!

sammyg2 09-22-2011 06:53 PM

A guy that works for me was in the service but he doesn't talk about it.
A couple of co-workers tell he he was a sniper and a really good one and saw lots of really serious stuff in Iraq, and spent several months in a hospital and darn near died from battle wounds.
He shaves his head and has a huge scar from his eye up to the top of his noggin. All he's ever said to me (with a smile) is he got a purple heart for it and it wasn't a good trade.

I'd be willing to bet that if he ran across a guy pretending to be a military something or other and was lying, he'd tear him a new one.

Seems like the ones who sacrificed the most talk about it the least.

sammyg2 09-22-2011 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by azasadny (Post 6268824)
If everyone who claimed it was telling the truth, almost everyone in the US military would be in Special Forces, SEALs, etc... I swear every time someone tells me their son/father/brother/friend is/was in the military, they always say they did "top secret" stuff and couldn't talk about it. I don't like it one bit. I was just a peon in the military, like many, many others...

My uncle told me he was a green beret when I was a little kid. Even gave me Sgt. Barry Sadler's album for Christmas one year.
I later found proof that he was a disc jockey for armed forces radio in Taiwan.

Never really cared for him much.

JJ 911SC 09-22-2011 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by azasadny (Post 6268824)
... they did "top secret" stuff and couldn't talk about it...

Could but would have to kill you :D:):D

Zeke 09-22-2011 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Shuie (Post 6267608)
I work with a guy who is pretty well known in the civil war re-enactment arena for playing General U.S. Grant. Super cool guy. He's been in just about every movie about the Civil War and is a walking talking encyclopedia of American history. He also looks just like General U.S. Grant.

http://jerrypetersonbooks.com/images/General-Grant.jpg

But he's not, right? Even though he's played one on TV and stayed at the Holiday Inn all in one day.

Impersonating a general seems to be a bit of a tip off. How many generals have we ever had of his particular age? Isn't that a bit like me saying I was once on the board of directors for Ford?

Which of course I was. That's when I traded my well set up 944 for a Mustang.

looneybin 09-23-2011 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 6269883)
Seems like the ones who sacrificed the most talk about it the least.

that's it right there

911pcars 09-23-2011 01:37 PM

Generally speaking.

DavidI 09-23-2011 01:37 PM

I was finally able to confirm this guy had been arrested by the FBI for impersonating a commissioned general. He wore the uniform, donning a silver star, bronze star, and purple heart. He pled guilty several years back, but apparently did not learn his lesson. I am going to pay him a visit in the next few days. I am looking forward to this!

911pcars 09-23-2011 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidI (Post 6271446)
I was finally able to confirm this guy had been arrested by the FBI for impersonating a commissioned general. He wore the uniform, donning a silver star, bronze star, and purple heart. He pled guilty several years back, but apparently did not learn his lesson. I am going to pay him a visit in the next few days. I am looking forward to this!

Would it be out of the question to wear a wire and hidden camera? You can show us after the case is settled, face blurred, etc., or to generate some hits/income on YouTube.

Sherwood

E38Driver 09-23-2011 01:52 PM

As someone who was in the Army, I hope you beat his ass. I worked with a guy that claimed he was in special forces. Just by his I.Q. level (room Temperature) I knew he was full of schitt but people believed he was telling the truth.

Dave

Por_sha911 09-23-2011 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 6269563)
More than a couple elected officials have been found out... In the Internet age, it seems incredibly stupid to make that kind of claim..

At least one very high ranking elected person got away with undocumented claims...

Joeaksa 09-23-2011 05:05 PM

This could be very interesting... and hope you put him away for a long time.


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