Fake veteran faces 'stolen valor' charge

Penalty should be a 3 year enlistment.

In the French Foreign Legion.

There's a few of these guys about.

There was one in van awhile back posing as an afghan vet to get money from people. My dad actually fell victim to the guy, and i almost knuckled him for being so dim-witted.

It's easy to suss out the liars who have never served.

Down here you see no end of homeless guys with signs like "Homeless vet, need help, God Bless!" and they'll be wearing Vietnam-era fatigues and they'll be too young to have been there. So I'll ask the simple, "What was your MOS?" and almost as a rule they never know what I'm talking about. The ones that give me a straight up answer I'll take to breakfast or etc.

Seriously, I rarely encounter a real vet on the streets.

What the government tweaks on isn't the relatively harmless guys who beg on the streets but the total jerks who get paid to speak at events and they pose in parades and etc. as 'heroes' when, in fact, they are not.

What, IMHO, is a typical give-away for a fraud is when they're willing to talk about something "horrible" that happened to their 'buddy'. That instantly perks up my attention. The guys who've seen serious sh*t are almost uniformly silent about it and oftentimes their own families know nothing about what they've seen or done.

Totally Bart. People don't brag about the stuff they re-live.

We both know what we mean.

I've talked to guys who said they were in a said regt and that the were in said conflict when I'm well aware that regt wasn't there. Easy meat and those that have served are well easy to spot.

Should have a year at defaulters, armed with a toothbrush and brasso, to polish the little brass lines in the floor of the stockade. No easy time for this guy.