{"id":34829,"date":"2013-03-29T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34829"},"modified":"2013-03-29T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T17:54:21","slug":"the-stolen-valor-of-sergeant-major-andrew-f-underwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34829","title":{"rendered":"The stolen valor of Sergeant Major Andrew F. Underwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

AndyFMF sends us a link to the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals in the case of Sergeant Major Andrew F. Underwood<\/a>, who was also a CID (Criminal Investigations Division) agent. The brief doesn’t go into details about the case except to say that he was convicted of wearing unauthorized decorations and badges, and “false swearing”. Underwood was initially sentenced to a year in prison and a bad-conduct discharge (know to those of us who don’t have one of those as a “Big Chicken Dinner”). The appellate court reduced his prison time to thirty days but still stuck him with the BCD.<\/p>\n

The argument in the court brief is whether or not he should get the BCD or not. The dissenting judge thinks that, since he had twenty years of honorable service before he stole some valor, he shouldn’t get the BCD. The judge also says that it was the Army’s fault that he stole valor, since someone put the awards in his personnel jacket (the brief doesn’t say what those awards were and I can’t find anything in a Google search) without any coercion from the Smadge. He just didn’t try to correct his records and then wore the unearned decorations. The court ultimately upheld the sentence.<\/p>\n

But, I guess this is instructive to the strap-hangers around here as to why we get so upset over stolen valor – this what we get to do to people who steal valor when the civilian courts aren’t involved. More than twenty years of honorable service were flushed down the toilet just by not speaking up about errors in his records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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