RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146846,00.html

You could fry that basturd now for all I care.

Ditto

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Originally posted by Tanks35:
RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146846,00.html

You could fry that basturd now for all I care.

I never understood why people claim to have medals they never earned. Sad.

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Originally posted by Tanks35:
RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146846,00.html

You could fry that basturd now for all I care.

Was it this guy...

Just a chickens--t wannabe who probably never wore a US military uniform,sad very sad!!!!!!

What a disgrace. I think anyone who wears the highest honor this country bestows should get life in prison if they are frauds. The servicemen who earned their awards should tar and feather this jack**s.

When we have honorable men, such as ADM Mike Boorda being put down by the media for wearing devices that they did earn and civilians faking honors for themselves, something is vewwy scwewwy here. I say that if he claims to be a recipient of the Medal of Honor, then his peers would be service members. I say, let his "peers" be on the jury and if convicted, give those "peers" broad leeway in determining punishment. I just don't think a fair trial could be had if only civilians were on the jury.

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In June, he told Waukesha County sheriff's detectives he was a cook on the destroyer USS O'Hara and nursed several sailors with food poisoning back to health, the warrant said. He showed the detectives a Medal of Honor certificate that he says he received from President Nixon on July 15, 1972, and was signed by Navy Secretary John Chaffee.

He received it for nursing several sailors back to health from FOOD POISONING?? I mean, you claim you received the MOH, did four tours in Vietnam, and one in Iraq... and this is the BEST story (lie) that you can come up with for getting the Medal?

I mean, if you're going to do something like this, at least claim you killed Saddam or something outrageous like that.

What an a$$-clown this guy is. I hope he does his year in jail AND has to pay $100,000.

What's his phone number? I want to harass this idiot.

The guy needs his nuts cut off so he is not able to reproduce...

Having watched a man earn "The Medal" and the sacrifice he made that day it saddens me greatly that someone could falsely claim to stand within it's holders ranks..... and according to the link provided he still argues the point.... folks like him should have some sort of stigmata placed opon their person viewable for all to see, what that could be however I do not know.

I think that Congress and the judiciary should take this matter at least as seriously as they do their misguided opinion about cutting off servicemember funding for the upcoming fiscal year. I think that there should be special funding for investigating, prosecuting and punishing guys like this freakin' poser. Just as there is a special place in Hell for them, there should be a special prison set up for them, too where they are forced to live out a sentence of fear from retribution.

Let's see if we can get him a job on Senator John Kerry's staff!

Most would probably agree that anyone that would do something like this shouldn't be allowed to breath American air. Here's a bizarre fact from the 2000 US Census: During this Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served in-country (Vietnam)is: 13,853,027. By this census, FOUR OUT OF FIVE WHO CLAIM TO BE Vietnam vets are not.

These are real statistics and if there was a margin of error of 50% the number of liars is still staggering. Why do these people want to live a lie at the expense of the blood of my friends? I am NOT a Vietnam Vet. I was a friend of several dead ones and this story really gets me PO'd.

The supposed MOH recepient is 'flying his flag upside down in protest'. Yeah. That sounds like the actions of a real MOH recepient. The food poisoning angle is the funniest thing I have read in a while, though. He might(big might) have got a Certificate of Achievement for that in the Army. Maybe a firm handshake.

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Originally posted by drymartini:
Ditto[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tanks35:
RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146846,00.html

You could fry that basturd now for all I care.

For someone that illegaly wears this countries highest medal should be greeted with a fine 30x greater than what is on the books. This is a disgraceful act towards those that have died for this country as well as those that have earned that medal. Until I read this article I had thought that the penalty was 20 years in federal prison. Not a measley 1 year or 100k fine. In my eyes this is bad real bad....

Take him to space and throw him out an airlock.

The thing is that federal law provides for prosecuting, fining (upon convicion) and imprisoning those who wear ribbons and medals they did not earn. Perhaps there should be a court set aside for this type of crime. The stats cited in the posting above invariably also involves those who wear medals they did not earn. How many Navy Crosses were worn? Or other high ranking awards. I feel that there should be statutory enhancements to sentences to include fraud as well as actually wearing the medals.

At least the VFW Post smelled the smell between April and August. Another guy, fooled the 1st Cav Assoc at reunions for a generation and was behind a false story about a supposed Korean War Crime he "witnessed" months before Morning Reports show him joining a rear echelon element of the Cav. A West Point History Prof wrote a book debunking him and the Media Pulitizer awarded for a Book reporting the false story.

You know, we should honor those who serve and just be proud that we did our jobs honorably. I never saw combat, but I will dare say that I am just as proud of my service. We are all part of a team and everyone does their part. Those who are fakes, are not a disgrace to the service, but a disgrace to themselves. Anyone remember a few weeks ago the fake pow, ChuckCHill? When you look at their claims, it would be funny if it wasn't so offensive.

I don't think you should mitigate this guy's fraud. It is a violation of federal law and takes from the services. The MOH is a controlled item. The Ribbon that goes with it is also controlled. Who blinked and let the guy have one? Whose guard was down. It IS a disgrace to the service when he is allowed to obtain a supposedly secure item and wear it without being detected for the time he did.

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Originally posted by AirForceAggie:
You know, we should honor those who serve and just be proud that we did our jobs honorably. I never saw combat, but I will dare say that I am just as proud of my service. We are all part of a team and everyone does their part. Those who are fakes, are not a disgrace to the service, but a disgrace to themselves. Anyone remember a few weeks ago the fake pow, ChuckCHill? When you look at their claims, it would be funny if it wasn't so offensive.

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Originally posted by PeteCDR:
I don't think you should mitigate this guy's fraud. It is a violation of federal law and takes from the services. The MOH is a controlled item. The Ribbon that goes with it is also controlled. Who blinked and let the guy have one? Whose guard was down. It IS a disgrace to the service when he is allowed to obtain a supposedly secure item and wear it without being detected for the time he did.

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Originally posted by AirForceAggie:
You know, we should honor those who serve and just be proud that we did our jobs honorably. I never saw combat, but I will dare say that I am just as proud of my service. We are all part of a team and everyone does their part. Those who are fakes, are not a disgrace to the service, but a disgrace to themselves. Anyone remember a few weeks ago the fake pow, ChuckCHill? When you look at their claims, it would be funny if it wasn't so offensive.

I don't think that was his intent. I (think) he is saying that the actions of whackjobs in no way tarnish the real MOH recipients. Thats what I got, anyways.