Recon: Stolen Valor
This video is a couple of years old and produced by the Pentagon Channel. It stars some of our friends and it’s the best bit I’ve seen on why Stolen Valor should piss you off, if it doesn’t already. It’s pretty long, but it will keep you out of the stores this weekend. You’ll recognize some of the phonies they highlight from our pages;
Category: Phony soldiers
Thanks for posting this video. I was an instructor at Fort Knox right after Desert Storm. It seemed like any time we’d get a group of us together and go to Louisville or Lexington to throw darts, we had to walk slalom between the Vietnam war vets. Not one was an admin clerk or box kicker; they were all S/F, Ranger, Seal, Recon, etc. That’s when this crap became real to me.
Good video. Thanks for posting it.
Tankboy , I was a rotorhead in Nam.We just flew around making pickups and dropping stuff off. Joe not a pilot
Joe, I know the fellas are out there. Force Recon guys can’t do a damned thing without box kickers, and like an admin guy I was Drill Instructors with told me, can you say no pay due? I’m not denigrating Vietnam vets, they were my Platoon Sergeants my first tour, and superb men. I’m denigrating the guys in the bar, some that looked younger than me, talking about the Nam.
Cool.
You bragging 11Bs about being “tip of spear”. Without the rest of the spearhead,a pinprick. You also the shaft to really mess up the foes day. I just had give 11B a little ribbing. Joe
Joe,
I wasn’t infantry, I was tanks. Sorry. I enjoy screwing with the earth pigs too!
I did my first ME tour as an Infantryman in A-stan doing Convoy Escort Missions. My second ME tour was as just another Rear Echelon “Pogue” in Kuwait, nothing to brag about, but hey, I went where the Army told my Unit and I to go, and we got that mission accomplished, too. I had a run-in with some twentysomething posers one day at a gun show. They were wearing ballcaps with ME military-theme quotes on them, and I was wearing my “Afghanistan Hunting Club” T-shirt. No sooner than I started asking them the usual questions, when were they there, where did they end up, etc., they clammed up and then disappeared into thin air as soon as I looked in another direction, my face-to-face intro to Stolen Valor.
Ooh, ever so nicely done. As just a AAA technician back in ’54-’56, I went in during the open window of Korean Vets, so technically am one. I feel guilt for that because I worked with so many who actually earned that honor. How people who have never even worn the uniform can claim such honors as some of those this site uncovers and that this video did, angers me beyond description. It makes me mad at myself too that I just spent my time in Japan drinking beer while so many of you have paid with your blood. Yet, I praise the Lord that I was so lucky.