Robert Kenneth Hume, the fellow who thought that an altered DD214 would help him get a job as Fire Chief in Marietta, Georgia turned himself in to the police on Sunday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution;
He was charged with first-degree forgery, a felony, and false statements as a military veteran, a misdemeanor, according to Marietta police.
On Sunday morning, Hume surrendered and was booked into the Cobb jail. He was released that afternoon after posting $10,000 bond, booking records showed.
When applying for the vacant fire chief position April 5, Hume allegedly altered his military discharge paperwork, known as the DD214, to show he had earned a silver star medal, a bronze star medal, a purple heart medal and numerous others, according to police. On April 17, police secured an arrest warrant for Hume.
“The accused also presented a fraudulent certificate stating he had earned the rank of Master Sergeant, when the highest rank actually obtained was Sergeant,” the warrant states.
Finally. A police department that takes forged DD214s seriously.
Christopher Wilson, a veteran who who was being treated at Salt Lake City VA Medical Center took pictures of the examination room which his father sent out in a Tweet;
My son is a Veteran of the United States Army. He went to the #VA in Salt Lake City yesterday. This was the condition of the room he was seen in. Very unprofessional, unsanitary and disrespectful. Please retweet. Maybe @realDonaldTrump will see it. pic.twitter.com/P4CMQeE74t
The hospital has apologized, according to Tucson News;
Dr. Karen Gribbin, the chief of staff at the Salt Lake VA, has apologized to Wilson and is investigating why the room was a mess.
“I was taken aback by the condition of the room. The patient, Mr. Wilson, should not have been placed in the room in that condition,” Gribbin said.
Gribbin calls the incident a rare event but intends to review procedures with staff.
“I do not want another veteran to experience this,” she said.
Wilson believes his experience highlights a problem across the VA.
“I’m sure you could ask 1,000 different veterans, and each one of them will have their own story,” he said. “It’s frustrating. I mean, I go to another hospital’s emergency room… [and] it’s such a different experience. They seem to actually care about getting you the care you need.”
These are regional problems – whenever I go to VA facilities, I’ve never seen the place like it is in the photos.
Just before 6 a.m. April 14, a resident reported to police that [Darin J. Byerley, 42] had broken into his house in the 200 block of Lawnwood Drive in the Briarwood neighborhood, west of U.S. 31, between Main Street and Fry Road.
The resident told police Byerley got into his garage, and then came into his home. He had confronted Byerley with a gun, firing one shot that missed and went through several walls of the home. The resident then got a bat, striking Byerley several times, and then sprayed him with mace, according to the Greenwood Police Department report.
The resident then dragged Byerley through the house and out the front door onto the porch. When police arrived, they found Byerley sitting inside one of the resident’s vehicles, bleeding from a head wound, the report said. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and was later released. Police found Byerley’s hat and glasses inside the home, the report said.
When police spoke with the residents, they said Byerley would not speak, and only growled at them, and he would not leave the home, the report said. Both residents were concerned the man would return to harm them, the report said.
Byerley told police he uses methamphetamine at least weekly, and did not remember the incident, the report said.
The clerk told police the suspect walked into the store, pulled out a knife and demanded money from the register. When that didn’t work, the suspect reportedly grabbed the clerk by his jacket and demanded money again.
Moore said that’s when the clerk pulled out his own knife and told the suspect to leave.
The suspect left the scene on foot, and responding officers found a knife in the store’s parking lot.
The Department of Defense announces that Army Specialist Gabriel D. Conde was killed as a result of enemy fire yesterday;
Spc. Gabriel D. Conde, 22, of Loveland, Colorado, was killed in action April 30 as a result of enemy small arms fire in Tagab District, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation.
Conde was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
According to Fox5, 96-year-old George Boone, a B-24 pilot who became a POW when he was shot down over Romania in 1943 wanted to visit his wife grave during an Honor Flight trip to Arlington. Somehow his wheel chair didn’t make the trip. A selfless employee at the National Cemetery offered to carry the frail veteran on his back;
The employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, did just that. Boone’s son, Jon Boone, documented the scene as the employee brought him to his wife’s gravesite.
“He was such a caring young fellow, I felt like a toy in his arms,” he told FOX5…”I would like him to know how greatly I appreciate what he did,” he said. “His kindness was overwhelming.”
Back in December, Hondo told us that Marine First Sergeant David Quinn’s remains had been identified by DPAA. He was in Company C, 2nd Amphibian Tractor Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, when he was lost on Tarawa Atoll on 21 November 1943 – just four months after he was married.
Bert sends us a link to WMUR which reports that First Sergeant Quinn will be returned to his family in Temple, New Hampshire later this week;
On Saturday, he will be buried with full military honors in his hometown of Temple, where generations of the Quinn family have lived since 1780.
Paul Quinn never met his uncle, but always felt a connection to him and always hoped one day his remains would be identified.
“Elation – that’s about the only way to describe it,” Paul said. “I might have got a little choked up about it.”
A Quinn family member, a Marine Stationed in Hawaii, will escort First Sergeant Quinn’s earthly remains for the entire journey home.
Sgt. Quinn will finally be laid to rest in a space in his family’s plot that has been waiting all these years.
“I think it’s going to be one of the days of my life I will always remember,” Paul said. “I’m looking forward to the time I can go down to the cemetery and I know that his remains are there. It’s going to be wonderful, like the family’s back together again.”
By: MCPO (SW) Terence B. Hoey, USN (Ret.), Stolen Valor Researcher & Investigator
April 30, 2018, New York City
I have been reporting on Valor Thief Voepel since last March 29th, Vietnam Veterans Day. His tales of military derring-do are so outrageous, insulting and unbelievable, I traveled to San Diego on April 16th and exposed him (at the stern of the USS MIDWAY Museum) for what he is: a liar; a complete fraud; and a total disgrace to the U.S. Navy. PERIOD.
Some media outlets could not or did not want to do their homework or listen to the evidence at hand. So, we found a real journalist.
Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego will be breaking the expected news about Voepel’s continued false claims and disgusting remarks about what it is like to be in combat. The Stolen Valor community has obtained several devastating videos of the now and future former CA Assemblyman Randy Voepel claiming to have served with Task Force (TF) 117 in Vietnam. He claims to have served on boats as a gunner inserting U.S. Navy SEALs. He did not, he was onboard the USS GURKE (DD-783) at the time of his wild and unbelievable claims.
We immediately provided these videos to Ken Stone of the Times of San Diego who is working on a story that will certainly rock CA politics to the core and finally propel the issue of Stolen Valor to national attention.
New insulting and disgusting Voepel videos here at the Times of San Diego:
The Stolen Valor community is calling on Voepel to resign immediately without any further delay. In addition we are calling on federal and state law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction and the CA Assembly to conduct a full and complete investigation into Voepel’s claims, the denials and misinformation provided by his Chief of Staff, Mason Herron and to ensure the U.S. Stolen Valor Act of 2013, 18 USC 498 and CA Assembly Bill 153 (CA Stolen Valor Act of 2017) is applied as appropriate. Voepel supported CA AB 153, a bill that will likely and finally facilitate his removal from office.
The Stolen Valor community, Veterans and like-minded patriots across our great nation are watching this story as it develops and we wait for law enforcement and leadership in the CA Assembly to take action.
I will be reporting on this story as it continues to develop and will not stop exposing confirmed valor thieves like Voepel and the miscreants he now represents.
California’s last Vietnam Veteran serving in the Assembly is nothing more than a CLOWN, problem is … no one is laughing!
Someone sent us their work on this Character, Douglas B. Sherrow who claimed to be the XVIIIth Airborne Corps Commander, a three-star-general. He gave out this business card;
Well, according to his records, he retired as an armor branched officer in the New York National Guard. He began his military career in 1970 as an enlisted soldier in the Guard and then he was commissioned in 1972 and he spent his entire career in the National Guard, until he retired in 1994. He wasn’t even parachutist qualified, one would think that a commander of an Airborne Cops could jump from an airplane. He had no deployments in his 24 years of service.
