Operation Red Wing article

[Marauder06]

This is a natural outcome when we have monetized service, especially valorous service, through social media engagement. We have created a military influencer marketplace that indirectly encourages exaggeration and fraud.

And no accountability, top to bottom.

 

[Devildoc]

This is a natural outcome when we have monetized service, especially valorous service, through social media engagement. We have created a military influencer marketplace that indirectly encourages exaggeration and fraud.

Yes. My first hero was Larry Vickers. He's a hell of an instructor but I have changed who my heroes are.

 

[TLDR20]

This reminds me of a scene in Mad Men where the main character is posing as a Korean War vet. Someone finds out and goes to management. They dismiss the complaint because the main character makes them so much money that no one cares what he claims.

Both versions of Don Draper were actually combat veterans in the war though. He just assumes the identity of the officer rather than staying Private Dick Whitman.

I’m literally watching Mad Men right now.

 

[AWP]

Both versions of Don Draper were actually combat veterans in the war though. He just assumes the identity of the officer rather than staying Private Dick Whitman.

I’m literally watching Mad Men right now.

Glad you're literally watching it vice some simulation and thank you for the pedantic correction about being a Korean vet. The show's Don Draper is still a stolen valor case which is what's pointed out in the show. Dick is pretending to be Don for personal gain. That's the point.

 

[TLDR20]

Glad you're literally watching it vice some simulation and thank you for the pedantic correction about being a Korean vet. The show's Don Draper is still a stolen valor case which is what's pointed out in the show. Dick is pretending to be Don for personal gain. That's the point.

I wasn’t trying to be a dick. It was just a weird connection that I was watching the show while it came up in a thread here.