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This just chaps my butt....
susie
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Who knows what the number is of true veterans who are out there with claims pending for years that fight tooth and nail for deserved benefits? This yahoo (nunn's word) comes along and gets benefits and never even wore a uniform. I know what my hubbie is going through just to get his benefits and it is ridiculous, the hoops he is having to jump through and the asinine responses he recieves from the VA.
He sent in a copy of his CAB award paperwork with his claim and they sent a response asking for proof he had ever been in combat. (CAB=Combat Action Badge which is awarded to Army branches other than Infantry. Infantry recieves the CIB=Combat Infantry Badge). * unless you lie then no problem, I guess.
And just to clarify the health of the hubbie who looks fit as a fiddle in pictures: torn meniscus in '02 during PT, torn rotator cuff when Chinook crashed in '03, torn knee in '04 when loading out and mortars were hitting runway, quadruple open heart bypass surgery at age 45, three stents at age 48, prostate cancer with radical prostatectomy at age 48, hypothyroidism diagnosed and began treatment at age 35, high blood pressure AND high cholesterol diagnosed at age 25, chronic plantar fascitis in both feet diagnosed in '09, sleep apnea diagnosed in '11. VA just increased his disability to 20% last month.
So yeah, this chaps my butt.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg man who never served in the military has been charged with faking an Army service record and fraudulently collecting more than $97,000 in benefits.
U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld said Ronald Lamont Clements, 44, even claimed to have earned a Purple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge for service from September 1985 until January 1992.
A 10-count indictment issued by a grand jury in Martinsburg last week charges him with mail fraud, theft of government funds, falsifying military discharge certificates and false claims of medals and decorations.
Prosecutors say Clements defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $20,000 in one instance and more than $77,000 in another between July 2007 and January 2012.
Clements doesn't have a telephone listing. It was unclear Monday whether he has an attorney.
He sent in a copy of his CAB award paperwork with his claim and they sent a response asking for proof he had ever been in combat. (CAB=Combat Action Badge which is awarded to Army branches other than Infantry. Infantry recieves the CIB=Combat Infantry Badge). * unless you lie then no problem, I guess.
And just to clarify the health of the hubbie who looks fit as a fiddle in pictures: torn meniscus in '02 during PT, torn rotator cuff when Chinook crashed in '03, torn knee in '04 when loading out and mortars were hitting runway, quadruple open heart bypass surgery at age 45, three stents at age 48, prostate cancer with radical prostatectomy at age 48, hypothyroidism diagnosed and began treatment at age 35, high blood pressure AND high cholesterol diagnosed at age 25, chronic plantar fascitis in both feet diagnosed in '09, sleep apnea diagnosed in '11. VA just increased his disability to 20% last month.
So yeah, this chaps my butt.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg man who never served in the military has been charged with faking an Army service record and fraudulently collecting more than $97,000 in benefits.
U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld said Ronald Lamont Clements, 44, even claimed to have earned a Purple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge for service from September 1985 until January 1992.
A 10-count indictment issued by a grand jury in Martinsburg last week charges him with mail fraud, theft of government funds, falsifying military discharge certificates and false claims of medals and decorations.
Prosecutors say Clements defrauded the Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $20,000 in one instance and more than $77,000 in another between July 2007 and January 2012.
Clements doesn't have a telephone listing. It was unclear Monday whether he has an attorney.
Comments
Don
quote:Originally posted by andrewsw16
Draft them. Send them to a combat unit and make them serve exactly how many months or years they claimed. We'll convert the lie into a truth. [:D]
Do you suppose he is of African American lineage?