Have you seen military posers in person?

My first thought about this post was to not add my two cents, but after reading the other ones , I was reminded of a situation that did bother me. I live in a great little city in Missouri, and the biggest city to me is Springfield. On almost every major intersection there are people that have signs asking for money for various reasons. More than half of these folks use the words: "homeless disabled veteran, please help". I do know that there are many of our brothers and sisters that are homeless and did serve, but in one case I encountered, the person turned out to be one of my clients that I counseled for addiction. My clients have to fill out a lot of paperwork and when it comes to military experience it makes a difference because I can usually find transitional housing for them after inpatient rehab, but also, to receive state funding they have to provide documentation. Unfortunately this person was lying on their sign, and also carried the lie into the center in groups and such. One of the big pieces of working towards sobriety is honesty.
This whole experience led me to wonder if the lack of self-esteem or possible terrible circumstances that some people find themselves in due to addictions could be a root cause of their need to make up a past that gives them some sense of being something more than just an addict. Maybe they never felt the sense of belonging that all of us vets and active duty persons get to experience. Does it give them right to disrespect us by impersonating us; not at all, but let's look at it differently for once. Maybe they have so much respect for us that we should see it as a complement.

Be well brothers and sisters,
Stan

I have never seen a poser but I served in the brown black jungle mickey mouse boots army .I was a Lifer and had no civilian occupation . Sorry the devil made me do it LOL The bond that we have with one another reach across time and space and no one can breach that bond . He can wear ribbons medals awards of all kinds but he can never be one of us .Even death will never be able to break that bond and the respect that we have for each other and that is something that he long for but can never obtain . sign 40 yards

I always ask what there MOS is, that usually screws them right up

People always want to dress like their heros

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Oklahoma has A Stolen Valor law. If you get caught wearing medals, uniforms and found you didn't earn them or lie about them you can be fined up to A 1000.00 dollar's.

Honestly, anyone who has actually served, probably doesn't go out into public on a regular basis in full or even a chewed up uniform. Unless it's for a special event, like a military funeral, or a veterans gala or some shit, if they're wearing a uniform, chances are they didn't serve. Simply put

In general, what I hate about posers is that regardless of our branches of service or duty assignment in that branch, we all lost our civil rights for the duration of our tours and experienced hardships that these people can't even imagine ... and in reality, many of them probably would have been among the protesters who demeaned us for our service before, during and after Vietnam...