A Valor Thief Lived in the Fort Bragg Barracks for Months Before Anyone Noticed

SGT John " Mac " McConnell wow....this is really compelling.
Once 3rd Group became aware of the suspect incident, they quickly launched an investigation. When the investigating officer caught up with Chase, the fake soldier was leading a formation of six people. He told the officer that he had recently transferred into 3rd Group from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Delta company.

For the record, 82nd has a lot of Delta companies. That’s why actual soldiers will also list the battalions and brigades of the Delta company they were in.

As the officer began calling the valor thief on his bull, the story quickly unraveled and the Fort Bragg Provost Marshal Office got involved. Chase was arrested and is facing a number of new felony charges. Meanwhile, 3rd Group is trying to get their ducks in a row in terms of barracks security.

Chase may go down in history as one of the ballsiest valor thieves ever caught. Not many of them take over barracks buildings or lead formations.

I want to know just how in the hell did he get there in the first place? If he had been a person with bad intentions, he could have taken out some of our most valued troops. How does Fort Bragg allow someone like this on base? I have been on Bragg for work many, many times over the last 6 years, and I promise it's not easy to get on post as a civilian, so how did he do it? Start there, tighten it up, and please, make sure anyone in those barracks is actually a soldier, before something terrible happens!

One finds oneself wondering just how far he'd have actually gotten, had he done it the right way. I'm rather remindedmof the Leonardo DiCaprio tom hanks film catch me if you can, and another famous film about an impostor in the 40s or 50s played by Tony Curtis, who apparently actually posed as a shipboard surgeon in the Canadian Navy during during the Korean war, both of which were of course true stories, you can likely find the Tony Curtis film using Google, that's the only story I'd heard that even seems to rival the one here formsheer stolen valor, LOL.