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The work behind the curtain goes on. Maintaining the high standards for a valor thief to be featured here is a difficult and time consuming task. It has to be to maintain our credibility and stay within legal standards. The regular Admins who are the frequent posters here have the duty to find items that will interest you, our readers, hopefully holding your attention between the real job of outing posers. This morning Management gave us an update, and I thought y’all would appreciate a peek behind the curtain. Mgmt agreed. <\/p>\n
Snake<\/p>\n
6:56 AM (3 hours ago)<\/p>\n
to me, Ex, Mark, Dave, thebesig, balm73008
\nAll;<\/p>\nJust wanted to let you all know the status of Stolen Valor cases.<\/p>\n
Still filing out a boatload of FOIAs. Getting a lot of requests for military service verification. The latter is non-stolen valor and more family curiosity\/genealogy research which is also a part of our business model.<\/p>\n
Been getting a bunch of index cards for individual FOIA filings saying they are behind at NPRC. When these arrive, usually they are followed by the FOIA results within 7-10 days.<\/p>\n
We continue to evaluate each case on its merits. It is just a nuance\/trend that there have not been publishable cases recently.<\/p>\n
Many cases question someone’s “veteran” status when they’ve served for several weeks or one month, but depending on the criteria some organizations and individuals consider these people veterans. It is hard to determine if it was a medical discharge by the FOIA results. Hence, they are not publishable cases in our view.<\/p>\n
Many case submissions continue to not have any evidence, citing word of mouth but are not willing to provide sworn statements as to what they heard. We do not pursue these as well based on lack of evidence that the person made the claims. These continue to be about 80-85% of the case submissions so there is quite a bit of back and forth in emails educating the informant.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I wanted to assure you that the work continues but based on circumstances there have not been publishable cases recently. Perhaps that is a good thing.<\/p>\n
Veteran’s Day is not far off so there is a lot of activity then. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thanks Snake. Here’s the part of the team’s real work that largely goes unseen, until a valor thief meets the strict requirements and is awarded a post here. Dave, Steve, Snake, and all the others are keeping with Jonn’s high standards, BZ!<\/p>\n
AW1Ed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"