Stolen Valor and Service Dog Provider
Kudos to WLNS Channel 6 in Landsing Michigan who seem to regularly investigate stolen valor, even having a page of their website dedicated to it – Stolen Valor Investigations. To date, most of it centers around Kirk Lanam – who claimed *cough* that he was a Brigader General.
On April 19, 2023, Lanam, in civilian clothing and with one of his service dogs at his side, walked up to the podium at the Hamburg Township Planning Commission. “Good afternoon, my name is Brigadier General Kirk Lanam,” he said. “I am 34 years on paper with the United States Air Force and 22 years active combat.”
We would be remiss if we didn’t say that he followed this with “318 deployments.”
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WLNS reports that when Lanam separated from the Air Force he had the rank of “airman basic.” We may need a ruling on this, but Lanam could be the most enormous disparity in rank that we’ve had by X number of paygrades. However, it is hard to calculate the jump from enlisted to officer.
The dogs are innocent in this entire fiasco.
Veteran nonprofit head charged with embezzling more than $400K from vulnerable adult
by: Shajaka Shelton – Posted: Jan 23, 2025 / Updated: Jan 24, 2025
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Michigan Attorney General has charged 52-year-old Kirk Lanam, who is accused of inflating his military service while running a Livingston County veterans service dog nonprofit, with embezzlement from a vulnerable adult. He pleaded not guilty.
Lanam, of Hartland, was arrested in Oakland County Wednesday and arraigned in Rochester Hills Thursday. He was charged with five felonies for allegedly financially exploiting an 87-year-old man by fraudulently obtaining legal power of attorney in March of 2024, knowing the man was a vulnerable or incapacitated adult with a court-appointed guardian.
He is accused of diverting more than $400,000 from the victim’s funds to himself and the non-profit he ran—the Howell-based Veteran’s Service Dog Organization Veteran Service Dogs Organization. Lanam was at the center of a 6 News stolen valor investigation in 2024.
Then…
The Oakland County investigation reveals Lanam took over the financial affairs of an elderly Korean War veteran. Former supporters and volunteers for VSDO have told 6 News that when he took over that financial burden, the nonprofit was struggling to pay its bills.
At the time Lanam took over the veteran’s finances, veterans told 6 News he began showing up with expensive items, such as lawn moving equipment, security cameras—and even a new Hyundai Palisades. The 6 News Investigates Team can show more than $250,000 in spending from this elderly veteran’s account that appears to have benefited VSDO generally and Lanam specifically.
Is it just me, or does VSD sound like a venereal disease?
Category: Air Force, Air Force Poser, Valor Vultures
Shitbag donkey-dick sucker!
Bernath better clear out some space in his suite in hell, he is going to get a roommate in a few years.
Why wait “a few years”?
I’m sure an …..uhhh….”accident” could be arranged to speed up the meet-&-greet.
You mean like him “accidentally” falling into a brush chipper going full throttle?
That’s one method.
See also my response to Claw’s “hanging around”.
One question:
Would you rate more despicable, as despicable, or less despicable then Gen. Milley?
Little Milley has a better audit trail with corroborating evidence. It’s even possible that he may have been a decent soldier at some point in his 43 year span of service before the subversion.
I don’t know 318 deployments sounds about right for an air Force BG. Not sure what Active Combat means? But I guess he has been deployed since the War on Terror began.
The audacity of these scumbags is incredible
I’d also like to hear the definition of “inactive combat”.
See John Fonda-Kerry, Ted Kennedy or Al-Gore.
Well Kerry did murder civilians for no reason so there is that.
And their stupidity.
Looks like he fucks the dogs.
Cocksucker
Bing!
What a fucking clown.
They should make him tongue his dog’s and them Vet’s assholes to clean them up. Brings a whole new meaning to “kissing ass”.
Phil Monkress is probably already reaching out and getting Lori Benton spun.
All-Points Logistics cannot let this type of talent fall by the wayside.
Fleasing that poor old Korean War vet. This fucker will get the barbed cock of Satan for sure.
“Fleecing”
(sorry)
What a despicable piece of Dog Sh*t! Thank you, Steve Balm, for blurring out the faces of the innocent K-9s.
Speaking of deployments…What say we call for a deployment of the TAH As(s)teroid of Insults on the thieving, embellishing, POS Kirk Lanam. Can I get a SECOND and an AYE?
Aye “second” that deployment.
Dipshit.
Only one question in my mind:
Did the Air Force revoke his NDSM before he was let go in his 23rd month of service (June 1992) as an Airman Basic E-1 for “personality disorder?
I sure hope so, as we of the Brotherhood don’t want him hanging around. /s/
Oh, we don’t mind him hanging around. But only under specific circumstances….such as….
At the end of a noose, with 13 knots, around his neck, with 6 feet of free end to the rope, thrown over a stout branch 10 feet off the ground, with the rope slack taken up such that Mr Lanam is doing a very nice rendition of an “air dance”.
Under those specific circumstances, I see no problem with Mr Lanam “hanging around”.
Air guitar contest…
Or, a Harley race for the exits by opposite traveling routes with four bikes hooked to four extremities….
I mean just once couldn’t we beat the living shit out of one these guys?
I think a few well publicized beatings might send a message of sorts for shit bags to stop doing this stuff….
In prison no one else gets to see him taking a beating…but if a group of veterans wearing ski masks dropped by and beat his ass until he couldn’t stand and filmed it and then suggested it could happen to any stolen valor suck bag maybe we’d see less of this shit…
Most likely not, but the beat down would sure release a lot of pent up anger for these rat bastards.
Shitbag of the year and it’s only January.
What a low-lying blob of cockroach shit! Fuckasses like him put me in favor of bringing back the pillory and public horsewhipping!