{"id":56240,"date":"2014-11-05T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56240"},"modified":"2014-12-03T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:18:51","slug":"thomas-decare-obvious-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56240","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Decare; phony stops in for a beer before he fights ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we have this friend, Mac, in our old stomping grounds in Oswego County, New York where I finished college after I retired from the Army. Mac helped us bust Jim Ferris<\/a>, the Korean War Veterans Association president last year. <\/p>\n

Mac was at his local sports bar near Fulton, NY to watch Monday night football when this fellow, Thomas Decare, came in dressed like this;<\/p>\n

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I know, this is the thing that we all wish would happen to us, right? Well, Mike says that he bought Thomas a few beers to get the bullshit flowing, and he wasn’t disappointed;<\/p>\n

You can imagine my surprise when I was sitting in my favorite watering hole in Phoenix, NY, when this train wreck came in and sat down. He ordered a beer and a moment later answered a cell phone call when, very loudly, he proclaimed he was on his way to Fort Drum and then enroute to fight ISIS.<\/p>\n

I could not help myself and had the bartender send him down a beer, started a conversation and had a friend of mine pose for a few pics with him. In addition to the fact that his boots were unlaced and unbloused, his uniform looked like shit and he had a baseball cap on that said “Special Forces”. He was more than willing to tell us he was keeping us all safe and free.
\nHis name is Thomas Decare (same name on his name tapes) and I believe he is from the Fulton area. I finally followed him outside and called him on his bullshit, he flashed an ID card that looked like something from the 80’s (I got out in 89) and I told him how many vets were in the bar and everyone knew he was full of shit. Additionally he told me he was in the 175th Ranger Regiment and had HALO experience he was yelling this on the way to his car, and he proceeded to leave the area at a high rate of speed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mac says that he’s going try out that New York State stolen valor law on him. We’ll see how that works out.<\/p>\n

Needless to say that there is no Thomas Decare in AKO. Especially one wearing a ten-year-old uniform pattern with a flag below the combat patch, HALO wings on the wrong side – and that Tower of Power on his left sleeve is epic. Also he succumbs to the siren song of phonies – 2d award of the CIB. ISIS will kick his pudgy ass. <\/p>\n

We filed for his FOIA last night, by the way.<\/p>\n

Added 12\/3\/2014<\/strong>; his records, or rather the lack thereof;
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