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.
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.
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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.
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.