Military Stolen Valor - Get the glory, admiration and grift. It's just an Amazon uniform order away.

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"Yes, kiddo, I have killed countless bad guys as an Army SEAL. This Costco cashier job is just a CIA cover story for my secret operations."

- What is military Stolen Valor?


Stolen valor is when someone falsely claims to be a veteran or claim awards they didn't earn. It can also refer to the act of wearing, buying, selling, accepting, or presenting military medals not rightfully earned. This is illegal in many countries and punishable by law, including the US with the Stolen valor act. The stolen valor crowd can range from serial liars, scammers, glory hounds, and outright schizos.

Again, wear your cammies and a Marine corps hat in your airsoft games, that's no problem. Don't be a fucking tard about this. Know that people have lost a lot of money to Stolen Valor scammers.

I'll let retired Navy SEAL Don Shipley steal the mic away from this one.




-Stolen Valor Act

The Stolen Valor Act was a federal law passed in the United States that made it illegal to falsely claim or impersonate being awarded certain military medals, with the intent to deceive others into believing that they are entitled to certain benefits. It also criminalized knowingly wearing, buying, selling, accepting, or presenting such awards.

It's not just about protecting the integrity of the military and prevent narcissists wearing medals they didn't earn, but also using them for personal gain or fraudulent activities. This can include claiming benefits that aren't rightfully yours, like veteran discounts or job preferences. It can be a way to defraud people who think, because of your military background, you could not possibly be a scumbag grifter.

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-Stolen Valor in the Military

The act of stolen valor is not limited to civilians, but it can be found within the military itself. There have been instances where soldiers claim to have been part of actions they were not part of or to have earned medals they did not receive and wear them on their uniforms, often for personal gain or prestige. We are talking about serious lying about one's military record, or embellishing an otherwise unimpressive military career into something much more heroic and admirable.

This undermines the integrity of those who truly served and sacrificed themselves for their country. Chris Kyle probably being the most famous example of stolen valor in the military, by writing copious amount of lies about his service and awards (like extra silver and bronze stars) in his book "American Sniper"

-Notable Stolen Valor Shitbags

Jason Blaha, loser "fitness influencer" who claims to be CIA-deep undercover.

Sarah Sarah Cavanaugh, pretended to be a Purple Heart veteran marine by falsifying documents and scammed veteran charities out of more than a quarter of a million. Will serve a 70-months sentence in prison for wire fraud, amongst other things.

Richard Blumenthal, Senator of Connecticut, played fast and loose with his "Vietnam experience" for political clout.

Mark Niemczyk Fake SEAL, fake 9/11 survivor, fake firefighter, has Parkinson and diabetes and scammed over 100k from selling t-shirts and other phony hustles.

(A LOT MORE to be added as notable ones who stand from the mediocre crowd pop up)




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-Hero of Stolen Valor Policing.

Meet Don Shipley, retired Navy SEAL of team 1 and 2, decorated veteran, and with access to the military database to confirm the publicly available records of someone (Note: there are no secret records of someone's military career. Activities you do while in service may be classified, but things like enlistment, graduation/promotion dates and numbers are always on the record. If someone says their record is "classified", that is a lie).

He's been very well known for exposing phony SEALs and military members who Steal Valor and do it for grifting purposes. Warning, though, he's a bit of a boomer and his humor might not be everyone's cup of tea, but he's a smart dude and worth a watch.


Has a series called, "Phony Navy SEAL of the week" where every week he exposes a new clown. If you are looking for the golden cow of phonies, Don is your man. Comment here on his videos and what you think and who you think are the biggest scumbags. There is no shortage.


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-What is this thread for?

Post here people who you think Stole Valor. They can be civilians making everything up, or military personnel lying or embellishing their careers for personal gain. Again, use your judgment. The e-thot wearing military cosplays is not fucking stolen valor

NOTE, FOR REAL SEALs or PART OF SOCOM BUT WHO ARE STILL SHITBAGS, THERE IS ANOTHER THREAD.***


THIS THREAD IS ONLY FOR STOLEN VALOR. ***If a person had an unimpressive military career and embellishes it for fame and clout, he also deserves a spot here. Use your judgment.

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-Conclusion

Military stolen valor is a serious offense that disrespects the sacrifice made by true and honest veterans. Honesty and integrity are essential values in any profession, especially those involving service to one's country. It also lets scumbags grift unsuspecting people out of their hard-earned money because they think "they are serving the troops". Happy hunting and enjoy the thread.

(Watch until the end)

Links
-https://thelinknews.net/2014/01/07/two-men-plead-guilty-to-theft-charges-for-operating-bogus-charity-using-911-truck-and-never-giving-money-to-victims%e2%80%99-families/ Mark Niemczyk story
 
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Good topic, but the thread sounds more like a school essay, it contains too few specific lolcows and doesn't have many examples of stolen valor in general.

It's also not a good idea to excessively rely on lengthy video content.
I totally agree. I'll put WIP and try to add as many as I can. I'd love the help from all of you to get the cream of the cows and not just mediocre ones.
 
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Does stolen valor include foreigners who served in other country's militaries, then try to get benefits here, either in person or digitally, and then cry, "but we're allies!" ?
Yep, if they were Canadian, Br*tish (super SAS killers) or European phonies, this is the place to mention them. I will put everyone who fits in the list. Diversity in cows is our strength. I have no problem adding people.
 
Had two coworkers at a past job who fall into this.

One was a retard who couldn't name what his job in the army was despite insistently talking about his military days. When I asked to see his DD-214 in front of coworkers he was lavishing his great tales with, he responded with "what's a dd-214?" That was the end of his stories.

Another dude was some late 40s manlet who already I knew was full of it right off the bat because he did not meet the height requirements (guy was just over 4 feet tall). He'd try to impress the much younger than him girls with his "impressive roles" in the military. The jobs he claimed? I shit you not, he'd unironically would claim to be either a "Navy Ranger" or "Army SEAL" depending on the day. Still gets to me to this day.
 
An easy format to follow would be a the normal dox of the individual, a FOIA request for any service records and then detailing whatever they are doing/done. An issue would be that you have to do a lot of really autistic searching for information. Maybe this would be better as a sub category of a "Fed Zone" kind of megathread eventually. I know there are a couple lolcows that are prior military, I'd have to look but there was a horrorcow I looked at a while ago here that was basically just yelling at his neighbors and livestreaming from his trashed apartment.
 
Does stolen valor include foreigners who served in other country's militaries, then try to get benefits here, either in person or digitally, and then cry, "but we're allies!" ?
It absolutely does. There is no shortage of people pretending to be everything from being Foreign Legionaires to SAS to Spetsnatz. A surprisingly large amount of those people even went to Ukraine during the opening days of the war and ended up bailing when it became apparent that they were going to a real war instead of a safari where they occasionally would get to play out their CoD fantasies.
 
It absolutely does. There is no shortage of people pretending to be everything from being Foreign Legionaires to SAS to Spetsnatz. A surprisingly large amount of those people even went to Ukraine during the opening days of the war and ended up bailing when it became apparent that they were going to a real war instead of a safari where they occasionally would get to play out their CoD fantasies.
I do think it might devolve into dependa posts eventually which wouldn't be great but there is gonna be more given all the fun wars starting/ continuing. Content mills. Take this oh so brave snake oil seller.

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You need more about Chris Kyle, a sort of edge case as an obvious legitimate combat veteran with some impressive achievements but who tarnished it with exaggeration to the point of being a serial liar. (IMO) I would say this should not be about guys who have provable legit service and maybe exaggerate their exploits, something plenty are guilty of, and others that were not ever in or weren't in places they claim.

Honestly the ones that piss me off the most are not quite the same thing - people who 'served' in some non-combat role and then act like that puts them on the same level as a combat veteran. Alot of assholes in JAG do this, such as the cuckservative NYT writer David French, who seems to have spent most of his 'Iraqi deployment' in the Greenzone in Baghdad.
 
Needs some explanations of the guys mentioned. Firstly, Chris Kyle:

A complicated guy, Kyle did do serious work but still felt the need to embellish to frankly embarrassing degrees. A very good argument can be had about how much was personal failure and how much was a result of trauma. It's not uncommon. While incidents in country are notoriously hard to verify, two particular claims in American Sniper as so ludicrous only his status and the at the time unquestioned reputation of the Teams among the public protected him. Two particularly stick out.

1) The Superdome. Kyle claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he was dropped off on the roof of the Superdome in New Orleans and began to shoot looters. This is obviously highly illegal, nonsensical, and a poor use of resources. It is a testament of the public perception of him at the time that it was simply ignored, and not called for an inquiry. Now, I have been the Superdome. A cajun man screamed unintelligible creole the whole time while pounding a gate. His black girlfriend was surprisingly hot. Good time. Anyway, if you pull the Superdome up on street view, you will clearly see that it has no sight lines to rest of the city, much less to the most effected areas. Also the lack of anyone reporting seeing their fellow looter eat a high caliber rifle round.

2) The Texas Shoot Out. Kyle claims while filling his truck at night somewhere in Texas, and apparently did not have 9 dollar wine following through his blood and 'These things' blasted through his speakers, because he was snuck up on by two gentleman of color who demanding his keys. Kyle, pretending to reach into the truck, drew his .45 from the console (Left handed, it had to be based on the geometry), stuck it under his right arm pit and fired four rounds with out looking. He struck both assailants twice in the chest, killing them. The police, when arriving, instantly recognized him as The American Sniper and assured him they would make sure it was taken care of. Of all that bullshit, someone actualy did the research and confirmed that no victims matching that description were ever reported.

To Don Shipley: Just wanted to add he got banned off youtube when he pulled up the records for the smiling Injun that instigated the Covinington Kids incident. Basically the Redskin never left the States and was kicked out early. I find it funny because the guy never actually claimed to be in Vietnam, he claimed to be in the Marines during 'Vietnam Times'. This is true. The media just assumed he was a dumb injun and 'Vietnam Times' was how the tribes described being in Vietnam. Someone didn't like Don pointing that out.

I've encountered a few incidents of Stolen Valor. Most end surprisingly cordial, I even took a drunk guy I knew was lying outside for a talk, called him and out and.. and I pointed out he's confusing Army and Marine terms and he finally admitted it and agreed to shut up. Which was good for me, because he had like 50 pounds on me. There was one hilarous one in college when some girl said her boyfriend was a vet and my group demanded him on the phone to ask why he wasn't out partying. Anyway, we get suspicous and demand his unit. Some Task Force no one knew of. Eventually we make the connection of where we heard TF 151 before. He was trying to Stolen Valor a Call of Duty campaign.
 
1) The Superdome.
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2) The Texas Shoot Out

I had somehow conflated these as a single lie (I thought it was a 'license to kill looters' essentially) and didn't recall that he said a variant of the same bullshit twice. Alot of those who served in Iraq started to doubt things he claimed while he was provably deployed when he started talking like that.

The other lie of Kyle's, unrelated to SV, is that however big a piece of shit Jesse Ventura is, I do believe he made up the whole 'fight' with him as well.
 
That Canadian faggot who claimed to be in a "Super Secret Ukranian SpecOps" Unit and kept detaling his night raids using bicycles and apparently even got people killed with his claims definitely belongs here I'll try to dig his tweets from the Ukranian volunteers thread.
Eventually we make the connection of where we heard TF 151 before. He was trying to Stolen Valor a Call of Duty campaign.
:story::story::story: Not even Steven Seagal would dare do this.
 
I would say this should not be about guys who have provable legit service and maybe exaggerate their exploits, something plenty are guilty of,
I agree. Brute Krulak is one of the most accomplished and honorable Marines to ever live, and he still did it. But Kyle is an outlier where he's claiming he shot American citizens dead and could 180 no scope muggers and the cops would let him go.
people who 'served' in some non-combat role and then act like that puts them on the same level as a combat veteran.
This is in the fact the worst and if I hear "As a vet" I reach for my gun
I do believe he made up the whole 'fight' with him as well.
The courts agree.
 
Da Nang Dick Blumenthal (first link on DDG, yes, I'm lazy) is a prime candidate for this thread.

There's also Sarah Cavanaugh, AKA Sarah Bregler:


The other lie of Kyle's, unrelated to SV, is that however big a piece of shit Jesse Ventura is, I do believe he made up the whole 'fight' with him as well.
To reiterate: Jesse Ventura thinks that there are reptillians living underneath the Denver Airport, and he won a defamation suit about that.
 
Honestly the ones that piss me off the most are not quite the same thing - people who 'served' in some non-combat role and then act like that puts them on the same level as a combat veteran. Alot of assholes in JAG do this, such as the cuckservative NYT writer David French, who seems to have spent most of his 'Iraqi deployment' in the Greenzone in Baghdad.
I mentioned this in the Seals thread, but the name for these "people" would be "Booties". I'm not sure if those are also welcome in this thread, but either way OP needs a lot of work.

@AeroGavin Rossdale Those claims are giving me some Deagle Nation vibes, holy shit
 
Yep, if they were Canadian, Br*tish (super SAS killers) or European phonies, this is the place to mention them. I will put everyone who fits in the list. Diversity in cows is our strength. I have no problem adding people.
I was specifically thinking of people from South and Central America, which seems insane but it happens a lot.
 
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It's Master Funnery Sergeant

I think some of the people that expose stolen Valor can fall into lolcow territory since it borderlines on cringe. Like a guy I deployed with wanted to spend Veterans day trying to expose stolen Valor instead of free food

And these Stolen Valor people never say "I drove a truck in Afghanistan" or "I was a CBRR"

It's always a fucking special ops.

Re: Kyle
A lot of guys fo embellish, because sometimes it does feel like that's the truth. One of my sergeants got shot at with a 9mm in the chest but the story he tells is a fucking slug. He's obviously lying but I'm sure at the time it felt like a shotgun. We call them seastories for a reason
 
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