Fake captain sentenced for wearing medals

[GroundPounder]

Give him to me!

A 15-month deployment as an E-1 in a gunner's position should give him a new outlook on life.

[Erik]

I have trouble with this guy. Whatever could posses him? Also, how was he busted? Must have had a veteran friend who knew better and turned him in.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/10/n ... r_101308w/

Ticker bought the uniform online and got the medals at a local military surplus store, according to an official familiar with the investigation who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss the case.

Someone at the wedding noticed that Ticker was wearing a lieutenant commander’s hat with a captain’s uniform and later contacted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the official said. NCIS turned the case over to federal prosecutors.

Ticker had been posing as a Navy officer for years; he had been married before and had told his first wife that he was a lieutenant commander, the official said.
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Ticker’s case is typical of many fakers, who often have no military background yet claim to have a rare array of the military’s most elite combat medals.

“Most of these guys just do this out of low self-esteem,” said B.G. Burkett, a specialist in military medals fakery and the author of “Stolen Valor.”

Ticker apologized to the judge and admitted he never served in the military in any capacity. He told U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey in New Orleans that he wore the fake uniform and unearned medals because he wanted to impress his wife.

[308Mike]

LOL, I bet she's REALLY impressed now!

[FastRope71]

I kinda feel sorry for the guy. We should make him feel better and let him wear the uniform, just not THAT uniform.

Mike308, small doesn't always do it. What you want is a large boat (for volume) with a flat bottom (more rockin to the motion of the ocean). A gator freighter like an LSD, LST or some such would be appropriate. Something old that's likely to have a caked on baked on ring around the boiler room bilge.

Make sure he gets his shellback and order of the ditch.