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Rhode Island Introduces Bill for Tougher Stolen Valor Law

| April 7, 2022 | 28 Comments
Rhode Island Introduces Bill for Tougher Stolen Valor Law

No doubt influenced by the recent fiasco with Sarah Cavanaugh scamming people by claiming she was a combat-wounded Marine, Rhode Island has introduced a bill to toughen up their Stolen Valor violations. RI lawmaker pushes to criminalize ‘stolen valor’ by: Sarah Doiron     |     Posted: Apr 5, 2022 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Nearly one month […]

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Stolen Valor Fruit

| March 30, 2022 | 49 Comments
Stolen Valor Fruit

I debated whether to post this but ultimately decided to. The only debate was I could not use names and it may strike some as “So what?” It has its value, however, in pointing out what goes on behind the scenes as well as feeling that the ‘Thank You’ we got should be passed on […]

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New Depth in Stolen Valor

| March 26, 2022 | 21 Comments
New Depth in Stolen Valor

Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Navy SEAL Museum Worker Notices Something Suspicious, Looks Around and Instantly Calls 911 By Christine Favocci, The Western Journal March 24, 2022 at 1:47pm A man took the term “stolen valor” to a new depth when he allegedly swiped a ballistic vest worn by one of the […]

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Disgraced AF major spends years working the stolen valor con

| March 23, 2022 | 139 Comments
Disgraced AF major spends years working the stolen valor con

ninja sends in the story of this former US Air Force officer, Brandon Bailey. The medical officer was drummed out of the service after stealing and selling drugs while in Iraq. Since then, he’s made the rounds talking about how he was a 20 year retired, totally and permanently disabled from combat injuries, and was […]

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Bizarre Ways to Violate the UCMJ

| March 21, 2022 | 63 Comments
Bizarre Ways to Violate the UCMJ

SOFREP published an article highlighting a few, little-known ways to violate the UCMJ… The Most Bizarre Ways To Violate The Uniform Code Of Military Justice Drinking liquor with prisoners Appendix 2, 896. Art. 96, B states that “Any person subject to this chapter who unlawfully drinks any alcoholic beverage with a prisoner shall be punished […]

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How Stolen Valor Was Discovered

| March 16, 2022 | 53 Comments
How Stolen Valor Was Discovered

There has been quite a bit of news coverage about Sarah Cavanaugh being charged with Stolen Valer for her alleged scheme to defraud people out of money posing as a wounded Marine. We wrote about her here: https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=123957 This article, however, takes a different slant and focuses on how observant people questioned her story and […]

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Arvil Reed in the news

| March 8, 2022 | 46 Comments
Arvil Reed in the news

If the name Arvil Reed sounds familiar, it’s because the former US Navy E-1 (booted early), was going around telling tales of derring-do. He was telling people, with phony documents, that he was a 20-year veteran of Naval Special Warfare where he had been a Navy SEAL officer. He claimed to have received the “Navy […]

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Day of the Soldado

| March 3, 2022 | 37 Comments
Day of the Soldado

So this story has several twists and turns and we are not sure of the true villain.  We’ll lay it out and you decide. It seems that Matthew Marshall, 51 (pictured above), successfully scammed billionaire venture capitalist Michael Goguen, 57 (pictured below) out of $2 million dollars by having Goguen believe that Marshall was a […]

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