{"id":55756,"date":"2014-10-11T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55756"},"modified":"2014-10-11T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:37:42","slug":"major-robert-michael-armstrong-stripped-of-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55756","title":{"rendered":"Major Robert Michael Armstrong; stripped of award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Major<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Someone dropped off this link from the UK’s Daily Mail<\/a> on Facebook. It’s about UK’s Major Robert Michael Armstrong who was found to have written up his own award of the UK’s Military Cross for heroic actions he didn’t take;<\/p>\n

Two corporals were reported to have claimed there was no hostile fire by the Taliban when a vehicle in their convoy was blown up.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Telegraph reported at the time that the officer who made the initial complaint felt aggrieved that actions attributed to Major Armstrong were those of other officers.<\/p>\n

A junior officer lodged a formal complaint and Army chiefs then called in the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police.<\/p>\n

Separately, the commander of Britain\u2019s 16 Air Assault Brigade, Brigadier Giles Hill, was ordered to carry out a review into the citation. It is understood that he described the Royal Irish Regiment\u2019s performance in handling citations as \u2018dysfunctional\u2019.<\/p>\n

He found significant disparities between what Armstrong claimed had happened and what actually occurred and that the citation contained a number of falsehoods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, ultimately, the good major was court martialed, and sentenced to a year in prison, which was suspended for two years and the medal was withdrawn. According to The Mail, Armstrong should not have known that he was nominated for the award, let alone help to write it. When investigators checked his computer for evidence that he had written his own award, they found more than a hundred classified documents on his computer, because, you know, stolen valor isn’t their only crime – every time, every where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone dropped off this link from the UK’s Daily Mail on Facebook. It’s about UK’s Major … Major Robert Michael Armstrong; stripped of award<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}