{"id":144022,"date":"2023-07-08T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=144022"},"modified":"2023-07-09T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:59:45","slug":"stolen-valor-top-official-at-montfort-point-marines-charity-caught-faking-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=144022","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor: Top Officials at Montford Point Marines Charity Caught Faking Records"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SgtMaj Charles Cook, president of Montford Point’s Western Region<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our friend and colleague Dan Noyes<\/a> at ABC7 News is on top of it again when it comes to ferreting out Stolen Valor.<\/p>\n

This time, you get to see a few direct confrontations as Dan asks some pointed questions of three top officials of the Montford Point Marines Association.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some responses I have not heard before – i.e. Cook ordered his medals online but claims he simply forgot to verify them when they arrived and just pinned them on his chest. Honest mistake.<\/p>\n

Stolen Valor: Top officials in Montford Point Marines charity caught faking their records, awards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Dan Noyes | Saturday, July 8, 2023<\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — There’s been a major shakeup at the national nonprofit founded to honor the Montford Point Marines. Three top officials were caught exaggerating their own military records and awards.<\/p>\n

I’ve reported on this issue before. Stolen valor is when a person pretends to be someone they’re not, exaggerating military service, or wearing medals and ribbons they never earned. Sometimes it’s people seeking respect or bragging rights. Other times, it’s for money.<\/p>\n

But the I-Team has learned that, for years, key figures in the Montford Point Marine Association have been lying about their records and awards.<\/p>\n

“I have served in some very harsh places, was there at the very end of Vietnam,” said Montford Point’s Western Region Vice President L.E. Michael Johnson.<\/p>\n

He told stories of serving in Vietnam during appearances for the nonprofit.<\/p>\n

“I was 19 years old around that particular time and frame of place,” he said. “I saved a lot of people, I evacuated a lot of people aboard that ship. When I came home in Norfolk, Virginia, I was called a baby killer.”<\/p>\n

But I confronted Johnson with his official military records I obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and he admitted he never served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Johnson: “I misspoke. I was wrong for saying that, sir.”<\/p>\n

Noyes: “You understand that people who served and the families of those who actually served in Vietnam and died, this is a great insult to them? You get that, right?”<\/p>\n

Johnson: “Yes, I do, sir.”<\/p>\n

But there’s more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the major travesties here is that it took so long to get the Montford Point Marines recognized in the first place. This is the wrong kind of awareness that you want to have with your organization.<\/p>\n

Then, there is Zinnerman – who resurfaces in yet another story. He must be trying to be the poster child for Stolen Valor.<\/p>\n

See the original, full exposure James Brown at: https:\/\/www.winecountrymarines.org\/post\/semperfraud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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