{"id":80686,"date":"2018-07-20T09:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80686"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:43:01","slug":"robert-cooper-canadian-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80686","title":{"rendered":"Robert Cooper; Canadian phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our partners at Stolen Valour – Canada<\/a> send us their work on this Robert Cooper fellow who claims that he was a hero of the Canadian Army. SV-C has a tougher time verifying claims than we have;<\/p>\n

Our team conducted a thorough review of all available records, this included websites, newspaper articles, photographic images, regimental tour books, searchable data bases of medal recipients and extracts from military documents in Canada and the US in order to determine the legitimacy of his claims.<\/p>\n

SV-C then reached out to the regimental and corps associations, their museums and other organizations in which Cooper has claimed to have served. The publicly accessible records, that we have had the opportunity to review, do not support the majority of his claims. That being said, the absence of verifiable records alone does not conclusively prove that an individual is a fake or embellisher, it just indicates that there are no records\u2026<\/p>\n

What we do know, Cooper was a Signalman (Private) radio operator in I Headquarters and Signal Squadron located in CFB Calgary in the early 1980s. By all accounts, he had a some what lack lustre career trajectory, he couldn\u2019t pass the Battle Fitness Tests required of all soldiers in the field force and it\u2019s reported he went AWOL on at least 2 occasions! And, he was shown the door\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess he was at a trial in February wearing his phony finery and he was confronted by another veteran. After months of investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police knocked on his door and took his medals;<\/p>\n

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Cooper claimed that the US awarded these medals when he served as a contractor in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

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From the Red Deer Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cAn investigation was commenced and on April 30 with the assistance from Stolen Valour Canada, the Wetaskiwin RCMP executed a search warrant in rural Wetaskiwin. Seven replica military medals were seized from the home.<\/p>\n

\u201c53-years-old Robert cooper of Wetaskiwin has been charged with (7) counts of unlawful use of military medals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wetaskiwin RCMP would like to remind the public the wearing of military medals and impersonation of military veterans is unlawful and disrespectful to our wounded and fallen and to their service to Canada,\u201d added Hepburn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He could afford the medals, but he complains that he can’t afford a lawyer to defend him from 7 counts of martial buffoonery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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