Posted on Apr 26, 2016
A Valor Thief Lived in the Fort Bragg Barracks for Months Before Anyone Noticed
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Valor thieves are some of the most obnoxious wannabes on the planet, but at least they’re easy to spot. With all the militaries’ peculiar rules and jargon, most stolen valor culprits are quickly outed by a misplaced uniform ribbon or a slip of the tongue.
Which makes it all the more amazing that one likely survived for months on an active duty post while living in special operations barracks and surrounded by actual soldiers. And, he was conducting room inspections and signing out keys to others while he did it. He was only caught after being arrested for DUI.
Which makes it all the more amazing that one likely survived for months on an active duty post while living in special operations barracks and surrounded by actual soldiers. And, he was conducting room inspections and signing out keys to others while he did it. He was only caught after being arrested for DUI.
A Valor Thief Lived in the Fort Bragg Barracks for Months Before Anyone Noticed
Posted from undertheradar.military.com
Stolen Valor
Fort Liberty
Fayetteville
Posted >1 y ago
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell wow....this is really compelling.
Once 3rd Group became aware of the suspect incident, they quickly launched an investigation. When the investigating officer caught up with Chase, the fake soldier was leading a formation of six people. He told the officer that he had recently transferred into 3rd Group from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Delta company.
For the record, 82nd has a lot of Delta companies. That’s why actual soldiers will also list the battalions and brigades of the Delta company they were in.
As the officer began calling the valor thief on his bull, the story quickly unraveled and the Fort Bragg Provost Marshal Office got involved. Chase was arrested and is facing a number of new felony charges. Meanwhile, 3rd Group is trying to get their ducks in a row in terms of barracks security.
Chase may go down in history as one of the ballsiest valor thieves ever caught. Not many of them take over barracks buildings or lead formations.
Once 3rd Group became aware of the suspect incident, they quickly launched an investigation. When the investigating officer caught up with Chase, the fake soldier was leading a formation of six people. He told the officer that he had recently transferred into 3rd Group from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Delta company.
For the record, 82nd has a lot of Delta companies. That’s why actual soldiers will also list the battalions and brigades of the Delta company they were in.
As the officer began calling the valor thief on his bull, the story quickly unraveled and the Fort Bragg Provost Marshal Office got involved. Chase was arrested and is facing a number of new felony charges. Meanwhile, 3rd Group is trying to get their ducks in a row in terms of barracks security.
Chase may go down in history as one of the ballsiest valor thieves ever caught. Not many of them take over barracks buildings or lead formations.
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SPC Kenneth S Frierson
He wanted to serve mighty bad ... Sad on many accounts .... But why didn't anyone else figure him outb
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Capt Michael Brown
Boggles my mind. The guys definately had balls. He is probably unbalanced mentally, but balls regardless.
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I want to know just how in the hell did he get there in the first place? If he had been a person with bad intentions, he could have taken out some of our most valued troops. How does Fort Bragg allow someone like this on base? I have been on Bragg for work many, many times over the last 6 years, and I promise it's not easy to get on post as a civilian, so how did he do it? Start there, tighten it up, and please, make sure anyone in those barracks is actually a soldier, before something terrible happens!
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Sgt Mike Sarris
SPC (Join to see) - I've never had a helper with me going on post, so I just figured in this Post 9/11 world, everyone in the vehicle was checked...how is that not the rule these days?
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Sgt Mike Sarris - I don't know it's stupid but I got yelled at by an MP when coming onto post that only the driver had to show ID
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SPC (Join to see) - They might've since I've been there but that's how it was when I lived there
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One finds oneself wondering just how far he'd have actually gotten, had he done it the right way. I'm rather remindedmof the Leonardo DiCaprio tom hanks film catch me if you can, and another famous film about an impostor in the 40s or 50s played by Tony Curtis, who apparently actually posed as a shipboard surgeon in the Canadian Navy during during the Korean war, both of which were of course true stories, you can likely find the Tony Curtis film using Google, that's the only story I'd heard that even seems to rival the one here formsheer stolen valor, LOL.
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SGM (Join to see)
I understand he was on the promotion list aswell :) That's hard enough when your in the Army let alone faking it :)
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