How do you deal with someone trying to call you "Stolen Valor"?

None of their business tell them to check with the VA if they want to know. Personally I'd tell them to get F*****. and leave me alone. I am a vietnam veteran, I know what I did. Semper Fi.

well i have a disabled Vet plate on my truck. and if it's cold enough i will wear one of my tankers jackets with everything on it. i'm also a member to Brotherhood of Tankers and a founding member of USABOT (another tankers group on FB) and a member for the Master Gunners Association. when my wife was alive a few years back, when she came home one day after her dialysis she told me a guy there was wearing a Stetson with his rank on. well i took her to dialysis the next time. and while waiting for her that guy came out. i went over to him and started a conversation. i can't remember how it unfolded. anyway he had the Stetson on and he was way to young to be a brigadier general yeah he had one star on his hat. and before i could say anything, he told me he wore it in honor of his father. i was going to ask the wife to find out what his last name was. but the next time i saw him he wasn't wearing the Stetson anymore. i'm not going to call anyone out unless i see something that is totally blatant that it is stolen valor. like these guys that wear class A uniforms with every medal in the system on.

I'd probably die laughing.

To quote Burt Reynolds from Smokey and the Bandit when talking to Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Burt saying to Jackie "Do the letters FO mean anything to you" is the proper response to your question about what to say.

Just say
FO/FU" and show your license. Tho normally, most of us have unit decals on the windows, which solves lots of problems.

Why would you assume anyone is going to care enough to call you out on something like a parking space? And if they do, it'll just be another Vet, right? In which case, you can just easily vet yourself or tell them to mind their own business.

A real funny thing to do would be to buy up all those "commemorative ribbons/medals" and walk around wearing 10 rows of nonsense.

Not a single one is a regulated award issued by any of the DOD branches. They all straight up look legit and mean absolutely nothing. In fact, I bet they are marketed specifically for Stolen Valor. No valor, ergo not stolen.

There you go SPC over thinking a non event. Stop worrying over what might happen.

If what you show them is not good enough, walk away. They are usually not Veterans themselves so nothing you show them will be satisfactory.

I personally have utilized those parking spaces, and no one's ever questioned me. However, I I would simply respond stating my MOS 11B1V, most likely would understand, if not I would use the description. As for when I see someone parking in those designated areas, I simply thank them for their service. And I thank you for your service. Salute.