Montana Senator Tim Sheehy’s STOLEN VALOR

@Mamapolo2016 To set the record straight: Sheehy clearly committed STOLEN VALOR. He wrote in his memoir and in a resume submitted to the Montana State Legislature that he had been medically discharged due to wounds received in Afghanistan. In October 2024, an NBC News review of Sheehy's discharge paperwork found that Sheehy voluntarily resigned from commission, contradicting his claims that he was discharged from the military because of injuries he sustained on duty.

@KunsanVeteran Exactly. Personally I think such blatant misrepresentation should be criminally chargeable with mandatory prison time.

@Mamapolo2016 Under the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, it is a federal misdemeanor to falsely represent oneself as having received any U.S. military decoration or medal. If convicted, defendants might have been imprisoned for up to six months, unless the decoration lied about is the Medal of Honor, in which case imprisonment could have been up to one year.

However, the that law was struck down in 2012. It was amended in 2013 to only cover the Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished service cross, Navy cross, Air Force cross, Silver star, Purple Heart, Combat Action Badge, and Combat Action Ribbon and requires you to have gained through fraudulent means a financial benefit.

Sheehy was awarded the Purple Heart, however the narrative of the commendation is somewhat poorly written and, AFAIK, he did not receive a financial benefit. The reason for the confusing narrative is supposedly he was struck by friendly fire. The wound he received in a federal park is not the wound from the incident he received the PH and in the broad sense, this was stolen valor.