re: Stolen Valor fraud arrested in Florida- lied about service to score city job

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Any you Army fellas have knowledge on this...I mean, does the ARMY give out Air Medals to helicopter crews or is it strictly an AF ribbon/award? NM...further investigation shows all the branches can award the Air Medal (variants of) to their respective aircrew members...if they ACTUALLY are an aircrew member that is

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Had this dude we worked with do Medevac missions and he got 5 fricking Air Medals from a single deployment.

Air medals are worth points towards promotion, medal points are capped at 25. Air Medals worth 3 points each, over a year rotation dude got 15/25 of the total points, which is HARD AS frick to get, as point medals are far less common than all the other bullshite we get.

How did he not make Sergeant Major?!

I'll give the guy credit for doing some research...normally the ribbons are completely out of order and not plausible (Antarctica Service Medal). He could have done all of that during those years, but it would have been a hell of a career.

"I guess if you are going to lie, lie BIG."

A guy is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house:

Talking Dog for Sale

He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.

The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.

"You talk?" he asks.

"Yep," the Lab replies.

After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says "So, what's your story?"

The Lab looks up and says, "Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA and they had me sworn into the toughest branch of the armed services ... The United States Marine Corps... You know one of their nicknames is "The Devil Dogs."

In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders; because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping.

I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running, but the jetting around really tired me out and I knew I wasn't getting any younger.

So, I decided to settle down. I retired from the Corps (8 dog years is 56 Corps years) and signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in."

"I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals.. I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired."

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.

"Ten dollars," the guy says.

"Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?"

"Because he's a liar! He never did any of that crap. He was in the Navy!"

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How did he not make Sergeant Major?! I'll give the guy credit for doing some research...normally the ribbons are completely out of order and not plausible (Antarctica Service Medal). He could have done all of that during those years, but it would have been a hell of a career.

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I want that so fricking bad, it's the coolest looking ribbon we have.

There are a few Air Force Medical billets every year, and I am sucking off whoever gives that assignment if I can ever figure out who the frick it is.

Damn so he flew helis, shot at people, and bandaged up wounded. That’s one high speed soldier there.

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Legion of Merit medal is usually reserved for high ranking officers like Generals and sometimes Colonels.

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Not always; My dad is a retired LTC and got a LOM at his retirement. He was a Battalion Commander in Korea (in the '70's, peace time), and was a Viet Nam vet who did receive a purple heart (was not really seriously wounded) and a Combat Infantry Badge.... My point is, he was a good officer, not any sort of johnny Rambo type and he got a LOM at his retirement.

But, still, the idiot claiming all of the fake shite was way over the top.

Reading these comments makes me sad. Vets these days get treated almost as bad as we did coming back from the civil war

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So he used VA services and they didn’t catch the fraud?

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That’s what I was thinking. Clearly there aren’t enough checks in place.

I’ve never heard of an Air Medal for Valor