{"id":23884,"date":"2011-06-14T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23884"},"modified":"2011-06-14T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:14:37","slug":"phony-steals-from-ga-vfw-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23884","title":{"rendered":"Phony steals from GA VFW post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just A Grunt<\/a> sends us to a local Georgia TV station link<\/a> to a story about a phony who played up PTSD-symptoms to hoodwink the Roswell, GA VFW post out of some of their cash;<\/p>\n

“[He] showed a lot of the signs, common signs that you would expect from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and some different traumas,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mitiu said he gave [Michael Bradshaw, 32 years old] about $345, and other members kicked in several hundred more dollars in “good faith.” Several weeks later, he said Bradshaw’s military record became available and it showed a different story.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we saw his discharge papers, that he\u2019d been kicked out in 2001 before 9\/11, then we started asking the police for advice,\u201d Mitiu said.<\/p>\n

Mitiu said Bradshaw\u2019s story also raised flags when he told other veterans he\u2019d gone to Ranger School at a military base that didn\u2019t have a Ranger school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So he wasn’t just a liar, he was an idiot about it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery penny we raise that doesn\u2019t keep the lights on is going to help these guys out,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, when someone is taking those funds, they\u2019re taking it from another soldier and a family that needs that assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roswell police said Bradshaw\u2019s alleged scheme should be a wake-up call for other charities and nonprofits eager to lend a helping hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A real veteran won’t mind proving his creds, folks. I busted one in my house a few weeks ago. One of my wife’s friends brought her boyfriend over and he was wearing a Ranger T-shirt and a cell phone on a Ranger strap around his neck. He introduced himself by mentioning he’d been in the 1st Ranger Battalion. <\/p>\n

I asked him when and he told me during the same period I’d been there. I thought it was pretty silly that he was introducing himself as a Ranger and wearing all of that silly shit so many decades after he was there, so I asked him which company while I reached for the yearbook and asked him which one in the photos was him. He told me that he was sick the day we took the pictures not realizing that people who were absent were still listed without a photo. <\/p>\n

So I threw his ass out. I guess his girlfriend broke up with him, too. Life is hard when you’re a dumbass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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