"Fake Marine In Reno, Gets Called Out By Female - Claims He Is On High Alert"

I like her, She's got a pair. Anyway, yes, the guy's a poser. 3/26 was disbanded after Vietnam and has not been re-activated. Perhaps if more people would stand up to the POS's, there'd be fewer of them. It's said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, not here. Not with Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, or Airmen.

I have known people like this, I usually ask questions but never challenge them because over the years I have learned that there are many things that have been true that seem impossible. I was born deaf in my left ear and have been challenged. I have the paperwork including my military ID. Unless someone is acting in counter interest to American values, I just ignore them. During the 80's I allowed an old drunk to live on the back of my property in a house trailer I owned. He had been in merchant marines. He worked for a company that had ties to the CIA. He told stories about going on patrols in Vietnam with CIA operatives. The stories were obviously lies. That was all he had, I let him stay for years until he died. He never hurt anyone and he and my favorite dog loved each other. My children accepted him as an uncle type.

Glad she called him out! An old Vietnam buddy and I were touring Civil War battlefields in Virginia. We were both wearing Marine covers. A guy walks up and says "Semper Fi"! We got to talking and asked his Vietnam unit. We were surprised when he claimed he was in Lima 3/1 in 1967 & 1968. Bill and I were in Kilo 3/1, so asked if he was there on 27 Dec 67. He said "all those days blend together"! We were shocked because on the 27th Lima's CO, XO and 15 other Marines were KIA. We both said, "you weren't there"! He hatted up right then. We couldn't believe that he picked Lima Company as his fake unit.

ok as far as the out dated uniform goes we the discharged veterans as I understand it we can ware the uniform of our service date as I do mine is 1981 to 1987 BDU'S with black polished boot's to fit in with the active duty that I sometimes do Ceremony's with ill ware the tan boots with my BDU'S or my VETERANS dress uniform as in my profile photo

The worst act of Stolen Valor I have ever heard of was a preacher in Hampton Virginia some years ago. He had somehow persuaded a personnel specialist, probably a GS4 or so, (Ft Monroe had a lot of civilians in what were normally enlisted positions) to give him an ID Card as a retired colonel and somehow, it was reported, arranged to get retirement pay. He got away with it for a number of years and probably would have gotten away with it longer but he tried to get himself promoted to Brigadier General. Needless to say, that resulted in an investigation that revealed he had never been been in the Army, much less a Colonel. I don't recall how much money he had received over the years, but when you consider how much he got away with in unearned benefits alone it's absolutely maddening. It made the national news, which was where I learned of it. It has been quite a while ago because Ft Monroe has been closed for ten years or more. Now that was a case of profiting from impersonating a soldier.

To be honest, I'm afraid to be called just for wearing my Navy retired cap or my t-shirts. I'm diagnosed with PTSD and I tried suicide and ended with a brain injury and ended with speech and memory problems,I don't go out much and when I do, besides my panic attacks, I'm worried if something like this happens, I have forgotten a lot of my memories and if somebody starts to yell at me I wouldn't know what to do. I know, I don't like stolen valor either, but people forget the problems that a lot of us have, there's have to be a better way to end this problem, but for now, I prefer to be alone in my room.

His service number is 11 digits but service numbers have not been used since 1/1972 by the Navy & Marines and they used to start with a letter. Since then they use your SSN. The guy definitely has problems. Plus I did not know that if you are 55 you can be called back to active duty?

She isn't a lady. Ladies don't use that kind of language. This whole thing could have been handled with a bit more class.

These are the most cringe worthy videos. I understand they are necessary to bring awareness to stolen valor though.

We all have to understand what stolen valor is in a legal meaning. The US Supreme Court had ruled that the wearing of the uniform is not stolen valor but freedom of speech. Stolen valor comes with the meaning of fraud. It is not fraud unless the person in question is trying to gain personally by using the status of a veteran which the party is not legally entitled to. We seem to worry about people who are not veterans wearing the uniform but condone many veterans across this country who owns used military stores who sell the uniforms to anyone who has money to buy them.