I'm person x, and the above is a description of me stationed in south korea, I used deploy in the literal sense not the military definition (but you don't have to know that)
Nothing above is a lie, as a specialist I was placed in the position reserved for a staff sergeant, where I spent most nights not doing jack shit but sweep up and do bitch work before morning shift shows up.
And I pulled guard duty, in a camp very close to the DMZ (lol) and never once had to fire the weapon that I carried into war.
The point I'm getting at is I'm no war hero but I can be sneaky about my language and make my service seem more than it actually was without even lying. And if someone else wants to draw their own conclusions that's not my fault.
And that's what Tim Walz did, you can call it stolen valor or not, I don't give a shit, it's sneaky, and as a war hero who served in a combat zone during a cease fire, I'm against it.
well I tried. I didn't do a whole lot so didn't have much to work with when it comes to embellishments. Hence focusing on saying being overseas post 9/11 in a time of war mentioning near front lines without mentioning the dmz blah blah blah.
I'd assume a civilian reading it would assume given the timeframe person x was in iraq or afghanistan. Or rather that was my intent.
reality was I just drank a lot of beer and ate gimbap while having a good time.
I knew he wasn't in the middle east, or he would have mentioned the Iraq or Afghanistan campaign medals. The whole "near the front lines" threw me off, because I forgot we're still technically in a state of war with North Korea.
They signed an armistice in the fifties, but that's defined as a temporary cessation of hostilities. The state of war still exists.
As a veteran of the Global War on Terror who also didnt do anything other than sit in a office this definitely read to me like a write up I would do if I wanted to pull the wool over someone's eyes. Is it stolen valor. Ehhh. But its easy to be dishonest without actually lying.
thank you for your service, even if it seemed bland. I'm glad you were able to serve somewhere where your service actually meant something, and wasn't just a ritual bombing of the locals.
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I'm person x, and the above is a description of me stationed in south korea, I used deploy in the literal sense not the military definition (but you don't have to know that)
Nothing above is a lie, as a specialist I was placed in the position reserved for a staff sergeant, where I spent most nights not doing jack shit but sweep up and do bitch work before morning shift shows up.
And I pulled guard duty, in a camp very close to the DMZ (lol) and never once had to fire the weapon that I carried into war.
The point I'm getting at is I'm no war hero but I can be sneaky about my language and make my service seem more than it actually was without even lying. And if someone else wants to draw their own conclusions that's not my fault.
And that's what Tim Walz did, you can call it stolen valor or not, I don't give a shit, it's sneaky, and as a war hero who served in a combat zone during a cease fire, I'm against it.
I was thinking after reading that it doesn't sound like that person did a whole lot.
well I tried. I didn't do a whole lot so didn't have much to work with when it comes to embellishments. Hence focusing on saying being overseas post 9/11 in a time of war mentioning near front lines without mentioning the dmz blah blah blah.
I'd assume a civilian reading it would assume given the timeframe person x was in iraq or afghanistan. Or rather that was my intent.
reality was I just drank a lot of beer and ate gimbap while having a good time.
I actually did assume you were in the Middle East or Afghanistan so that part worked.
I knew he wasn't in the middle east, or he would have mentioned the Iraq or Afghanistan campaign medals. The whole "near the front lines" threw me off, because I forgot we're still technically in a state of war with North Korea.
They signed an armistice in the fifties, but that's defined as a temporary cessation of hostilities. The state of war still exists.
As a veteran of the Global War on Terror who also didnt do anything other than sit in a office this definitely read to me like a write up I would do if I wanted to pull the wool over someone's eyes. Is it stolen valor. Ehhh. But its easy to be dishonest without actually lying.
thank you for your service, even if it seemed bland. I'm glad you were able to serve somewhere where your service actually meant something, and wasn't just a ritual bombing of the locals.