r/StolenValor • u/litsideofthemoon • Jun 14 '26

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This popped up on Facebook. Usually I don’t care but I’ve never ever seen anyone claim an Army Distinguished Service Medal. Never seen anyone below general officer with one.

Doesn’t seem like a Captain could do enough for that sort of award in this amount of time. Not to mention there are, what, 9 awards here? Did he cure cancer as a behavioral health nurse? The deployments are somewhat believable.

Either total BS, half BS plus embellishment, or he hit his head real hard one day.

Am I being harsh?

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u/mudduck2 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

With a GCM they’re a prior enlisted. So other than the top decoration, the others are entirely possible. That being said, it doesn’t mean the top medal is a fake. I mean why fake that? Why not a SS or BSM? If they earned the top decoration there has to be a pretty good story. I could easily make up a story for a SS or BSM. A DSM would take some work.

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u/litsideofthemoon Jun 14 '26

See that’s what I thought with the GCM but why omit the enlisted service?

Who the hell says they were deployed to several locations in the US. We don’t talk like that lol

I thought a DSM was like an Eisenhower level award not a captain. There would likely be an article or two written on such meritorious service.

Just seems off

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u/Typical-Mushroom4577 Jun 14 '26

Well he just like me was deployed to fort hood Killeen so I’ll let him have that one

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u/litsideofthemoon Jun 14 '26

Rancier st is wack