Posted on Mar 10, 2015

Stolen Valor? This picture was taken during the 50th Anniversary Selma March. Do you see anything wrong?

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What are the possible explanations for this picture? Do you not think you can be called out at such a public event? Is this the highest rank yet? How many different organizations are represented on this guy? When I saw this picture I got the Forrest Whitaker eye. I woulda shut the whole march down. SMH

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LTC Paul Labrador

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WTF over...?!?!? What is NOT wrong????

1) wrong shoulder boards. Army SM's above the rank of SPC do not wear pin on rank on the collars (that is a Navy/Marine thing).
2) I think he's sportng 3 stars (LTG) on those wrong boards and collar. If he is a LTG, the cover is appropriate....BUT GO's typically don't wear branch insignia. Hence the term "general" officer.
3) I can't see if his personal award rack is off (and my guess is that it likely is), but his unit awards are jacked up (and not even sproting unit awards on that sided). Further, can't tell if that is a Regimental affil above the foreign jump wings or another foreign badge (can only wear 1 foreign badge).
4) That cord on the left is not one that I recognize. It's not a fourregere that I recogonize (French or Belgium). It's not a aiguilette (and as a GO he wouldn't wear one anyway).

What kills me is that you can pretty much count by name African Americans who have made LTG. There aren't that many of them. I hope someone called his shit out. That is disgusting and shames the rememberence.

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Lt Col Stephen Petzold

10 y

It looked to me like a police chief uniform with some army badges thrown in.

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LTC Lee Kichen

10 y

He must a General Admiral or would that be an Admiral General. Wouldn't you say we are taking 'Jointness' a little to far?

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MAJ Jack Horn, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, CCTP, CCTP-II, CCFP, CDBT

10 y

C'mon, I think it's wholly appropriate. If an 11th grade student with a penis can "self-identify" as a girl and use the women's locker room to take up skirt photos of ladies in the shower, then this bozo can wear a Vice-admiral's shouldeboards on an Army uniform, improper foreign decorations, nonexistent cordage, wrong collar insignia, and inappropriate branch insignia and "self-identify" as a three star....something.

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MSG Thomas Currie

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Lt Col Stephen Petzold - -- Definitely a very police chief looking uniform. I wonder if the AG is supposed to stand for "Attorney General" which might fit with the rest of his totally over-the-top nonsense, perhaps some Deputy Attorney General from somewhere (I assume the Attorney General would want 4 stars, unless the Governor was using them).

On the other hand -- this picture is supposed to be from the 50th Anniversary Parade in Selma AL. It seems odd that this is the only photo of this rather conspicuous individual -- it also seems odd this it took over 10 years for this image to magically appear.

I certainly have viewed every photo of the parade, but I scanned through quite a few and I didn't find anyone even vaguely resembling this photo. So far as a Google image search can tell, this photo exists in only two places online: Here and in one individual's Pinterest account.

I thought this photo might have been misidentified from the 60th anniversary parade, but the Pinterest post is from 6 years ago, so it is at least that old.

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