{"id":173326,"date":"2025-08-31T09:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173326"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:34:38","slug":"maryland-governor-wes-moore-gets-bronze-star-18-years-after-lying-about-having-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173326","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Governor Wes Moore gets Bronze Star 18 years after lying about having one"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maryland Governor, Wes Moore, found himself in hot water when he implied that he received a Bronze Star Medal because of his combat deployment. Moore, while applying for a White house fellowship in 2006, claimed to have received the Bronze Star from his Afghanistan deployment. When it turned out that he did not have it, Moore explained it away by claiming that the paperwork for the award was submitted and approved. It was not until the tail end of the Biden administration that Moore received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service.<\/p>\n

From The Western Journal:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The outlet noted that when Moore ran for governor in 2022, the issue came up of his falsely claiming to receive the Bronze Star for his Army service in Afghanistan in his White House fellowship application.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Moore submitted the application in January 2006, he had not been awarded either the Bronze Star or the Combat Action Badge. He was awarded the badge in May 2006 for an episode the previous December, but there is no record showing that he ever received a Bronze Star, an Army spokeswoman said,” according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Moore told the outlet last summer that it was “an honest mistake,” saying that his superior officer informed him the paperwork for the award had been submitted and those up the chain of command had approved it.<\/p>\n

But Moore never received the medal, which often happens with a medal pinning ceremony. At the very least, soldiers are given the certificate and the ribbon.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Moore would have received a DD214 form upon leaving the military in 2014, listing all the medals he had received.<\/p>\n

“Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after Mr. Moore’s deployment and did not meet him until years later, said it was not uncommon for military award nominations to get lost in processing,” The New York Times said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how many times since I’ve retired that I’ve [had] people come to me trying to get an award that they told me that they had been recommended for that they never got,” McChrystal told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, McChrystal acknowledged Moore should not have written in the White House application that he had received the Bronze Star. He said it clearly “would have been more elegant” to write that he was recommended for the awards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DeSoto, R. (2025, August 29). Biden tossed Bronze Star at Dem presidential hopeful 18 years after he started stolen valor lie – Shockingly the NYT and AP exposed it all. The Western Journal<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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