{"id":58120,"date":"2015-02-07T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58120"},"modified":"2015-02-07T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:45:58","slug":"why-i-care-about-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58120","title":{"rendered":"Why I care about Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came upon this article on Facebook by Jack Murphy over at SOFREP. The article is titled “Why I do not care about stolen valor” <\/a> piqued my interest to see where this was going. To be fair it was not what I thought it would be. <\/p>\n

Perhaps the most popular issue among veterans on social media and various military-themed websites is stolen valor. You know, those sad, pathetic pukes who throw on medals and pretend to be soldiers. That SAS poser in Prague is a good example. We all delight in exposing these frauds for what they are. We like to examine their photographs on Facebook and use our keen military insider knowledge of AR-670-1 to critique what is wrong with their uniforms. Then we like to continuously point out how stupid these people are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That and also have them on the internet so that when the same people try to pull the same stunts at a later time because they believe that no one will know or remember will be revived as frauds before rather then after being scammed<\/a>. I mean stolen valor is just a watered down version of identity theft. Also it has helped in learning and remembering the correct wear for the Army uniforms from all the errors that they do. <\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t stop there. Not to be deterred in our search for the faux soldiers and with our insatiable desire to expose stolen-valor cases\u2014we always need fresh meat for the grinder\u2014we start turning on each other. Veterans are in such a hurry to \u201cout\u201d people they suspect of stolen valor, they take to social media and accuse real veterans of being fakers<\/a>. We\u2019ve seen this happen over and over again where veterans jump the gun, acting like keyboard commandos suffering from small-penis syndrome.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know I would be happen to not see another story about someone not being guilty of stolen valor. Not because I do not want these cases being reported, but rather because these crime was not being done at all. Also I do not think that one has to look to hard to find people who want to play dress up (figuratively and literally) in public for their own benefit. I can see how Going back to the story above<\/a>, I am curious if there are any updates on the Bronze Star with “V” device and the Purple Heart. Now before our favorite trolls get too excited over that last quoted statement, it follows up with this;<\/p>\n

I actually respect many of the websites and individuals out there who expose stolen valor. Military frauds can do real damage to people. Using fraudulent credentials, they get hired for jobs they are not qualified for. Some of them lure in unsuspecting women with their fake war stories. Their stupidity in public can make actual veterans look like idiots. Some of these fakers even collect money for their fake military charities for personal enrichment. These are perfectly good reasons to call bullshit on the bullshitters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, so you can site back down now. Now on to his main point. <\/p>\n

Do you know why I don\u2019t care about stolen valor?<\/p>\n

Because I have a life. You could work 24\/7 trying to track down stolen-valor cases; that is how prolific these clowns are. The question you have to ask yourself is, is it worth your effort? Don\u2019t you have professional and personal goals to meet in life? If I spend all my time writing about stolen valor, do you know what I\u2019m not writing about? Real soldiers. I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019m going to write about fake soldiers when I can write about real ones\u2014some of them quite heroic.<\/p>\n

The fake CIA-SEALs like Jamie Smith can say whatever they like, but it won\u2019t take away a single thing that I, or any of my teammates, accomplished during our military service. Our actions speak a hell of a lot louder than the bullshit on the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those that regularity read this site can say that we are well rounded in covering different topics such. The tags that help make sure that the actions of real service members get acknowledgement<\/a> that they deserve over the frauds that do not. I also disagree in that these actions on and off the battlefield are going to have the effect that he states above. I believe that this mind set has lead to more people jumping on and riding the coat tails. It also does not help public in filtering out which is the fraud and the real deal due to not being familiar with military life. <\/p>\n

So this is why I take a small amount of time to write about stolen valor and who is doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came upon this article on Facebook by Jack Murphy over at SOFREP. The article is … Why I care about Stolen Valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58120","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}