0:00 and then yeah we were walking down elac and then one of the recruiter like what the ████ are you wearing oh and then he got in his face like who the ████ did you serve with and as he was yelling at that guy that guy saw his reconnaissance Marine tattoo on the inside which is like a scuba guy like wings like he jumped out of so he's like a full amphibious Marine that you see the recruiter just immediately just like who the ████ are you sir I'm sorry sir I don't know if this is common if you've ever run into this but there was a senior enlisted Marine who was reduced to Sergeant for wearing unauthorized Awards including the Purple Heart who is that like Stolen Valor stuff stolen valor but I'm surprised they just reduced him rather than like completely
0:50 well how much did he get reduced to private to Sergeant uh what was his oh he's like a E9 like Admiral to it was per the per a plea agreement then sergeant major Charlie CL [Music] uh after a court marshall found him in violation of nine specifications of wearing Awards or devices that he did not earn so he went down to Sergeant so from where so how big is the drop so sergeant major I believe that's E9 that's like six levels down which is pretty huge that's like saying like holy like let's say if you were a governor and then now you are an employee at the DMB like parks and Rex director now man mean he still has some leadership but it's like it used to be you walk into a room everyone stands up command pres that kind of ████ um and
1:43 now everyone spank your but you still have you still have some Minions that you can you know with what's the first level is it Corporal so it goes private private private first class Lance corporal Corporal sergeant and then uh there's also like uh categories so a non-commission officer you're pretty much like an intern SL that's the first three Corporal Sergeant that's a non-commission officer so that's when you start picking up leadership roles then you have staff level roles so that staff sergeant Gunnery Sergeant um and then once you get to like uh Master Sergeant First Sergeant sergeant major like you're commanding thousands and thousands of troops wow so sergeant major is like is up there it's like almost like every General's right-hand man is a sergeant
2:34 major so it's like up there up there so is that pretty wild for that ranking to yeah like why would you when you're already at that so there's two things one it's it's so high ranking no one would even question you oh I see by the time you get there you could ████ have like you know those like dictator ribbons where you're like ████ did you really jump out of a spaceship or you just have like 20 ribbons on you um like ████ Ali G or uh the dictator whatever oh the dictator yeah yeah like like you have ribbons for things I've never even heard of but you would never question it cuz you're like oh ████ he's a sergeant major see the other part it could be he got that way through like there's the culture of like the Marine Corps where everyone wants to be like the grunt infantry badass but he could be
3:25 academically so good that he shot up that high that he feels like he needs to earn the respect of these guys you know what I mean yeah there's like yeah it would probably be like like a black belt that has never competed but he was really good in class and then but so but he's hanging around with the guys that are competing he wants to like so it's like bureaucrat versus like warriors on the on the road exactly so culturally he that's probably why he did that is to kind of be with the boys with those guys but what do people know like aren't purple hearts really ████ hard to get yeah yeah like you got injured in battle type ████ right yeah but then if you're so up there no one question it you know it's like if you're a black butt and go oh yeah I want the state champion ibjjf people oh yeah he probably did if I put like 10 stripes on my how often would a guy like that run into someone that's above him it's there's no one else above
4:16 him no so it's like every he's only going to run into peers or people at that rank that hold a higher position but there's no other rank above him except one person and that one person is called a sergeant hold up sergeant major of the Marine Corps so so the sergeant major of the Marine Corps is the guy but he's still also just the sergeant major you know damn so I wonder who called him out yeah I mean this guy also one of he wore the Purple Heart and the Combat Action ribbon that he wasn't authorized to wear dude they need to give a medal to the freaking dude who was brave enough to call him out yeah that's pretty crazy imagine a private was like he's lying according to the charges wore the over a nearly 5year period to include when he was a senior enlisted leader of the First Light Armored reconnaissance Battalion uh uh
5:07 aboard Camp Pendleton blah blah blah blah blah he said he wanted to consult his lawyer before speaking to the Press about all this stuff let me see D dude uh in total Clon was sentenced for wearing the following unauthorized decorations ribbons or insignias Purple Heart Combat Action ribbon which is awarded to Marines for actively participating in conflict with the Enemy uh joint meritorious unit award NATO service medal Kosovo campaign medal global war on terrorism exp exped expeditionary metal Sea Service deployment ribbon denoting seven tours all of those are all fake so far Navy and Marine cor overseas ribbon he went crazy yeah he went too much and Navy and Marine corpes parachutist Insignia so all of those are the combat vet ones so I think he probably was like a super admin Marine that shot up and he felt
5:59 like he never got he wants the same respect as as these guys cuz he also didn't cuz he's not picking any Crazy Ones he's not going for a medal of honor or Silver Cross or like the ones where you hear people like oh ████ grenade landed I'll just swallow it ████ it brother like he doesn't have any like war hero uh awards they're just like combat related Awards the craziest one is a Purple Heart where you have to get shot take a shot yeah um but everything else if you like let's say have done a tour in Afghanistan or done T in Iraq in the combat area you'll get all those damn but that's a hell of a lot of them to lie about huh this might be a dumb question but like where do you get the actual physical medals or patches or whatever at the Army Surplus store so you could you could just go to the surplus store and te just buy them just buy them because I've been seeing some
6:49 Stolen Valor videos on like my feed oh those are great dude and part of me like I understand what these guys are doing are like super ████ up and it it denotes like what all these guys who actually earned it did but part of me like I just feel bad for those guys that they got a mental thing yeah for sure they're definitely not all there screw yeah they don't ask you for like uh documentation for them to sell you the ribon you just get could be like a souvenir memorability something can you get it like at the like the military store like on base on base 100% you can and then probably any surplus ones you could probably find cuz I'm surprised like they don't just uh it has to be like at a ceremony and they give it to you yeah they do give it to you at a ceremony so then but then they still have to buy it themselves you have you have to you have to re-engraved cuz it starts as World's Greatest Dad so like
7:39 at the ceremony they give it to you right like let's say they P they pain your uniform but that's that one uniform I so like you might have five other uniforms you one you wear for Ceremony one you wear for parades one you wear they don't like they don't even check like hey did you actually earn this ever you can't take the pins put on your other CU I remember um you asked me for a favor back in the day and you're like can you buy me some Chevrons cuz I got to I had to do you had to I was going to the mall anyway so I was like I don't even know what a ████ Chevron is and then you're like it's this thing and then so I was at the montabella mall and I got some for you and then Looking Back Now I'm like oh you could just buy any of those and it's actually to spec it is it is it's by the same military company yeah so like a Purple Heart right you know how like it comes in that nice case all that ████ things like that too it's not like limited edition
8:30 you know only minted noted no it's there's like literally military supply stores that make those things so you could buy a purple heart you could buy a purple heart you could buy the case you could buy all that stuff I've seen them before at doughbys and Bellflower it was a military surplus had all the stuff everybody there was like a cool thing people would buy military shirts to just wear them for fun and then I wore to the like monabella had a marching band competition I was just wearing it at the parade just like normal shirt and then these marines almost beat beating my ass for it really yeah they came up and this there was like three of them and then one of them was like you know what kind of Blood Sweat and Tears i' had to go through for that for that that's so gay too though yeah no and he he had a his friend was like was like shaking his head like and I was like do you also have a problem he's like no but then the other guy's all you better take that off before I get angry and I get crazy when
9:21 I get angry when I get angry I see R you get one thing when you get the other like can't you just be the the next one I was like talking hell ████ to they just walked away I but I was like oh those guys could have killed me when people wear stuff for style and then people are in military get bent out of shape I'm like you're ████ you literally CTI dude I was like 17 I was like 17 too I was like a kid he probably just got out of boot camp and his whole identity is being a marine hey what kind of hair did you have at that time oh I had this like crazy ass Spike yeah it's cuz I look gay yeah you look you're literally waiting for style you're not like asking for money or you're not trying to like pretend to be some organized I was trying to get a discount on freaking sandwich I'm like you're so dumb you're so ████ stupid I could tell that they had split opinion because I was like yeah this guy's kind of on his own on it there's this guy I met at elac um he looked like ████ like a
10:12 singer from like avenge 7 full like he's wearing like eyeliner all the time he had like black uh fingernails and he had crazy hair and he would wear um Marine stuff but cut up all the time and he was in one of my classes and I was like oh I was like where'd you get that stuff oh that's when I was in and and then I'm like oh cool what were you doing was oh like a Recon Marine so he was like pretty much like Navy Seals and Marine Corps and a lot of those guys once they do some really crazy ████ when they come out they don't give a ████ so he's just I'm I'm fullon musician you know that's who he is um and then he was like showing me pictures of him jumping out of helicopters all this crazy story ████ you know isn't it funny go ahead and then yeah we were walking down elac and then one of the recruiter like what the ████ are you wearing oh and then he got in his face like who the ████ did you serve with and as he was yelling at that guy that guy saw his reconnaissance
11:02 Marine tattoo on the inside which is like a scuba guy like wings like he jumped out of so he's like a full amphibious Marine that you see the recruiter just immediately just like oh like this guy is like if you're trying to have a marine dick measuring contest this guy has the biggest Marine dick You' ever who the ████ are you sir I'm sorry sir and while he's while he's uh and while my friend was yelling back he has eyeliner still and he has black being now that's TI dude and his hair's and his hair's all crazy and ████ there was a recruiter at elac they always used to come wow but that's that's the thing I was going to point out it's just it's so funny cuz like if you think about all the guys that reach the highest level like from special ops or guys that deployed a million times right they don't have anything to prove
11:52 but then the dudes that are like their whole life is about being a marine or an army guy or whatever they're the ones that are like always got to tell someone like you know yeah I made it to this level and whatever right and then a guy that's like so jaded that's just like man probably other things on his mind like when you talk to a military guy and he refers to his last his last stuff as like oh yeah my job my boss whatever they're usually some special ops dude cuz they're so chill about it you know but when you talk to Marine guy like oh who are you with well you know what they oh 1 2 3 4 5 S ████ Battalion blah blah blah blah they're usually PR some that hasn't done anything cuz that's their kind of bragging point that makes a lot of sense there's there's this one b boy that used to act like that he was like like an ████ about it and he was like everyone's like oh dude don't ████ with him he was a marine and we find out
12:42 later that he was like dishonor discharged for selling drugs yeah we were like that's kind of Hardcore though you know what I mean he didn't even he didn't even like do anything he like he like uh I think it was like right in the beginning yeah like right in the beginning like where when they're like welcome to the what's that in your hand it was like that fast I was like you didn't really serve then he's shaking his hand with the Dr he's like I thought you wanted to buy some there's something in our headshake yeah it was like that like oh man what sucks about this guy is so once you get to that level E9 you're trying to make a career out of it and then your goal is you want to serve 20 to maybe even 30 years if you can he for sure has has been in probably pretty close to 20 he enlisted in ' 96 so yeah the reason why is once you hit 30 years whatever you're making that last year you make for the rest of your life so if you're like 150 Grand a year
13:33 for the rest of your life you get that once you die your spouse gets that 150 for the rest of your life but the direct the decorations like all that the metals don't affect what that number could be right no but because he got bumped down he has now no chance of ever retiring at that rank ever again it would take so long to get over there but Stolen Valor at that level is super rare right yeah that it's almost like shooting yourself in the foot even get prosecuted for like the official stolen valid stuff um but but the guys that like were on the prosecution or whatever they're like this is super rare like if you're already at that level for you to do that internally he must have started with one and then slowly like I'm going to add a few until it was people start giving him props he kept going to the store on basement he'd walk by and think twice about it well just one more just make the guy
14:23 that guyy selling him was like you know we got a special today we have a couple purple hearts like that guy knows the whole time I could picture the Gateway like he bought it at the store he's in the mirror and he's like you know it looks kind of nice on and and he was like you know maybe maybe one day like I'll grow into this you know like I'll actually deploy and I'll do it eventually I'm going to get one soon anyway I'm get one so it's like a guy that buys a Ferrari first and then he's like you know this is my goal to like actually buy the Ferrari clothes right you buy the Ferrari apparel to get a Ferrari one day to manifest he's manifesting up like a shot I mean I'm I'm a marine R zy Marine just give me the Purple Heart now man I'm definitely get a good shot watch too many ████ motivational speeches
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