Why don't you ask this fake Four Star General? Or better yet, have him arrested for impersonating a military officer........Sheesh!
Posted on 07/03/2013 1:44:36 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
While watching the Martin-Zimmerman trial this week, combat veteran and Navy Cross recipient, Jeremiah Workman noticed a particularly disturbing decoration on Doris Singleton’s Sanford Police Department uniform when she took the stand. Singleton’s uniform had two ribbons — the World War II Army of Occupation Medal and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal – which Workman knew could not belong to someone who had only served in the Army for three years.
“I worked at the Pentagon with Sgt. Maj. [Carlton] Kent and Gen. [James] Conway for two years and I was around every general in the Marine Corps. I know these high ribbons, I know just about all the ribbons anyways,” Workman told The Marine Corps Times.
Workman, a former Marine who fought in the second battle of Fallujah, posted a picture of the woman on Facebook with the caption, “Am I going blind or is this police officer in the Zimmerman-Martin trial wearing ribbons that she doesn’t rate? I see a WW II army occupation medal and a Defense Distinguished service medal. Wow! On the stand she was asked about her military career. She said army for 3 years. So she received in three years what a 4 star general receives after forty years of service. Wow. What a superb 3 year army career!”
Gina Harkins, who writes for The Military Times, saw the post and contacted Workman, who had already talked with the Sanford Police Department by telephone. He told Harkins that according to the conversation he had with a Sanford PD official, since the department doesn’t have their own awards system, they simply went to the Army-Navy store and picked out Defense Department military ribbons. The official also stated that they intentionally chose World War II ribbons because there are not many veterans still alive from that era and they did not think anyone would notice.
The response left Workman thinking, “So that makes it all better now because these guys are dead?” He told Harkins, “The fact that that was their response is still pretty shameful, I think.”
Shameful, indeed.
He questioned, “But what kind of professional police department would send Bob the patrolman around the corner to go pick out some ribbons for our officers to wear when they do something heroic or have good service over the years?”
Workman also said that the official told him that they were working to set up their own awards system.
The police chief, who is also an Air Force veteran, replied to Business Insider via email stating that they “apologize if any veterans were offended, and promise to rectify the situation.”
Also according the website, other veterans have emailed the police chief insisting that the use of the ribbons be immediately stopped.
Well, except for her apparently referencing her military service as part of all this. So there’s an implied connection.
Just from what I picked up on this thread. YMMV.
Why don't you ask this fake Four Star General? Or better yet, have him arrested for impersonating a military officer........Sheesh!
Ok guys, never speak ill of another FReeper.....
He started it.
Even though I had absolutely nothing to do with this, as an American citizen, I apologist to ALL veterans for what our country has devolved into.
You deserve so much more respect. Our government, at many levels is vile and unworthy of your sacrifice.
I see it as just another example of the militarification of the domestic police. Gestapo wannabees love medals, dress uniforms, and all the pomp. That’s why the police refer to non-police as “civilians” when they themselves are civilians.
Stars may be of any consequence but ribbons are of a differernt nature.
How completely pathetic! They should give them all authentic SEAL Tridents too!!
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If they meet height and weight minimums they would still be able to get in.
Okay, not a common situation but this does come up.
The Army of Occupation Medal has an unusual history. It was awarded long after the war to U.S. servicemen stationed in West Berlin, due to that city’s status under the Four Power Agreement.
I was assigned to the Berlin Brigade in the mid 1970’s, and was awarded that same medal.
Funny you should mention that, the the old man was there and usually had a story about hauling ass down to the check point at the Berlin border in the middle of the night!
I was a soldier and I never saw one. I was a combat engineer though, not infantry. There were a few Nam Vets who were infantry, but I never saw a CIB with 3 stars.
3rd Star is the foruth award recieved.
Not just a CIB. The decoration in question is given to a person who has been awarded 3 CIBs (the bar and wreath represent the first, the stars represent additional awards). There have only been 324 of these awarded - far fewer than CMOH - and the only people to wear them served in direct infantry combat as infantrymen in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. If you ever see a guy wearing one and he’s not at least 85 years old, he’s a fraud.
Sorry I hit post too soon each star is a war served.
Um, I was in Sang Bang... Dang Gong...
I was in Spoon Platoon- First Underwater Mess Kit Repair Battallion
The old man carried 2 Vietnam and Korea.
Agreed. The militarization of the police is a dangerous practice. I am especially outraged by the police use of the term “civilians” as well.
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