{"id":133242,"date":"2022-11-06T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T16:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133242"},"modified":"2022-11-06T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T16:33:57","slug":"yet-another-politician-legit-veteran-or-photoshop-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=133242","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Politician: Legit Veteran or Photoshop Warrior?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teresa Nicole English<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In yet another political race, there is an interesting controversy about a candidate’s claims of military service.\u00a0 Some say it is getting downright ugly.<\/p>\n

The Column: Stolen valor, or smear campaign?<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong>22nd Middlesex race gets ugly<\/em><\/p>\n

Teresa Nicole English, 38 y\/o, is a Democratic State Representative from Billerica, Massachusetts. Recently, the Turtleboy Daily News published a story about Ms. English. In the piece, apart from the political points made, Mrs. English claimed she served in The United States Air Force. Several people had their attention drawn to the photo from a political campaign promotion of Mrs. English. In the photo, Mrs. English is in the traditional Air Force Blue uniform, and some felt it looked like a terrible photoshop image of her \u201ccover\u201d (a hat), but it was also the \u201cU.S.\u201d insignia on her lapel that raised a few questions.<\/p>\n

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Teresa English<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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When Old Habits Don\u2019t Die: An Issue of Stolen Valor for Teresa English?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By\u00a0ValleyPatriot<\/span>\u00a0on\u00a0

There\u2019s something about the habits of we military folk.<\/p>\n

The military teaches and trains us to be methodical from day one. Whether it\u2019s to stand at attention a certain way, the way we should walk, to the way we fold our clothes. This writer still folds and hangs his clothes with near perfect alignment from his days in the military for better or worse. When we wear our clothes, we make sure we wear them a certain way, in particular, our \u201cgig line.\u201d It is the line of your button-down shirt and aligns with your belt-buckle, never off-set. However, never in my wildest would I imagine these habits would become a story in a Massachusetts State Representative race.<\/p>\n

Recently, Turtleboy Daily News published a story about a Billerica State Representative Candidate, Teresa English. In the piece, aside from the political banter, Mrs. English claimed she served in The United States Air Force, this writer\u2019s alma mater. What drew my attention was the photo of a political campaign promotion of Mrs. English. In the photo, Mrs. English is in the traditional Air Force Blue uniform, but that\u2019s not what caught my attention. Aside from what looked like a terrible photoshop image of her \u201ccover\u201d (a hat), was also the \u201cU.S.\u201d insignia on her lapel. In The Air Force, enlisted personnel have the U.S. encircled, officers do not, hers was that of an officer. However, her cover, photoshop or not, was plain, that of enlisted status. Officers in the military have a silver or gold embroidery on their covers, depending on their rank. Clearly this was a mismatch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has gotten interesting.\u00a0 Ms. English, in response, apparently sent a threatening cease and desist letter<\/a> to all that have questioned her military background in addition to questions about an alleged hit and run.<\/p>\n

For our part here at VG\/TAH, we have not directly seen the claims of being an officer other than the photo and insignia.\u00a0 Her claims of US Air Force service from 2001-2003, which we have seen, appear to be supported by her DoD Manpower Data Center \/ SCRA results, as shown below.<\/p>\n

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We don’t know where all of this is going to go. Hopefully Ms. English is legit. Her sending a threatening cease and desist letter seems odd on the surface as a (claimed) reaction to an inquiry about her military service – also appears to have more to do with the questions about an alleged hit and run.\u00a0 The cease and desist letter does not seem to address the accusations of military service claims.<\/p>\n

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However, this post on Facebook directly addresses the military service questions.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom what little facts that we were able to gather – Ms. English appears to be a veteran and her service dates that she claims are supported by the SCRA results.\u00a0 However, it does not appear to be a full enlistment, and then there is the question of whether the photo of her in uniform was altered – for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

We report, you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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