Yesterday, some of our friends were in Congress urging them to mandate that the Department of Defense create a database of military honors that have been awarded to curb the recent rash of Stolen Valor claims. But the DoD and the National Archives doesn’t see a problem; <\/p>\n
Representatives from the Defense Department, Army, Navy and Air Force testified in a House hearing Wednesday that creating a centralized database of military awards would take more effort than it\u2019s worth and they defended their separate record-keeping practices.<\/p>\n
“There appear to be adequate procedures in place to verify fraudulent claims to military decorations,” said Lernes Hebert, the director of the Defense Department\u2019s Office of Enlisted Personnel Management.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, their “adequate procedures” rely on the cottage industry which has sprung up to identify and shame these criminals. The main supporter of the new database seems to be Utah’s Jason Chaffetz who claims he was burned twice by awarding medals to people who didn’t deserve them. One of whom, Myron Brown<\/a>, we discussed recently.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I think it’s a hoot that the government says that it’s not worth their time or effort to create a database. When I called the Baltimore FBI office and handed over all of the evidence I had on Charles Baxter<\/a>, the idiot on the phone told me that I have too much time on my hands. She also didn’t know about the Stolen Valor Act and had to find out if it was a real crime. Of course, they never returned my call, and subsequent calls got the same reaction.<\/p>\n
If it’s not worth their time, why even have Stolen Valor laws? Why give out medals if anyone can just go buy them whether they deserve them or not? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"