Lewis-McChord Has No Record of Stolen Valor Loser Serving There

Can't tell if they are wearing a uniform or costume? A great suggestion was made by a buddy of mine, a real veteran, on what to do if you are not sure. Ask for their military ID.

My husband is 100% and we carry ID cards we have no problem showing at stores when they offer discounts or at movie theaters. Why should they simply trust me to claim the right to the discounts they give? I even have to show the card at the carwash but every bit helps. This guy is yet one more Stolen Valor Loser confronted by a real veteran.

JBLM distances itself from Ranger impostor in viral video
The News Tribune
BY ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
December 5, 2014

Joint Base Lewis-McChord is distancing itself from a Pennsylvania man caught in a viral video falsely claiming to be one of the base’s Army Rangers.

Officials have no record of the man, Sean Yetman, serving in the Army at JBLM, base spokesman Joe Kubistek said.

Yetman also did not serve in the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. It’s an elite Special Operations unit that has deployed 20 times to Iraq and Afghanistan since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Ranger Regiment.

A video of Army veteran Ryan Berk confronting Yetman while shopping in a mall on Black Friday has been viewed more than 3.2 million times on YouTube and has been discussed on Fox News and on “Good Morning America.”

Yetman is “impersonating in the uniform people died for,” Berk, 26, told The Allentown Morning Call newspaper. “He was wearing awards that I earned and he didn’t.”

A Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, meanwhile, has asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Yetman committed a crime while shopping. It is not illegal for a civilian to claim to be a military service member, but the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 prohibits civilians from seeking financial gain by lying about military service.
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