Valor Vultures
Argument over Stolen Valor preceded officer-involved shooting.
I doubt any of our regular readers would be shocked at the prospect of Valor Vultures having less than a full bag of brains. Confronting people you suspect of Stolen Valor requires more brains than bravado in many cases. The two involved in the incident, Marianne Roepe and William Allen, both of Camdenton, had been […]
William Tucker Sentenced for Stolen Valor
We have posted about William Travis Tucker before. He has finally been sentenced to 12 months in the Lauderdale County Work Release Center, paying restitution, of $411.86 to the Lauderdale County License Commission’s Office, $14,343.36 for misappropriating a relative’s student loan and $9,633.42 for his previous convictions. In 2020, Tucker was also charged with stolen valor […]
Matthew Morton – Phony Wounded Combat Action Marine
The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on this Matthew Michael Morton fella. Morton comes to us from Florissant / Saint Louis, Missouri. At the time of this writing, April 2023, Morton is 48 years old. Morton wrote a book titled “Adaptive Bodybuilding” in which he claims he “spent 5 years in the […]
John Watts – SEAL Team NONE
The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on this John Oscar Watts fella. Watts wrote a book about his supposed time as a black Navy SEAL. It is called “Shadow S.E.A.L. – The True Story of One of the First Black Navy SEALs” which detailed his experience with racism during his time spent in […]
NYT: Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine
We recently wrote about James Vasquez, but the New York Times just featured a story about Vasquez and others – painting a picture of an epidemic of Stolen Valor U.S. wannabes going to Ukraine to fight *cough*. Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker People who would not be allowed […]
Stolen Valor – Ukraine
I am sure most of our regular readers knew this was coming. Claims like “There I was knee deep in spent brass and grenade pins fending off those pesky RooSkees” from Valor Vultures on the Global front were inevitable. NEWSWEEK A U.S. veteran who drew significant media attention for saying he had volunteered alongside […]
Verlon James – Fake Navy SEAL
The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on Verlon James, who claims to have been a Navy SEAL, served in Vietnam and Iraq, and retired after 20 years. James comes to us from Toledo, Ohio and at the time of this writing is 66 years old. James likes to wear a Navy SEAL Trident […]
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