a day. That, is insulting.
And with that, I shall pass no more comment.
I have no problem outing a Walt and asking difficult questions to their face and have done so in the past. For example, at a Remembrance parade a few years, I had some stiff words with a guy who was wearing some court-mounted medals on his left chest. Turned out his 3
commemorative medals (that he had bought himself) were:
1. the Territiorial Army Centenary medal (because he had actually been in the TA)
2. the British Forces Germany medal (because his TA regiment would go out to Germany on exercise for 2 weeks a year!)
3. the Territiorial British Forces Defence Medal.
As any civilian spectators would assume the tat he was wearing had been earned in the same way as I earned mine, and all the other service personnel on the parade, I asked him quite firmly to switch his medals to his right chest so that everyone would know that it was unearned bling.
Some of the old-timers in my local British Legion club were the worst offenders. Despite having some real WW2 medals (generally a minumum of 3), they would insist of buying all the commemorative tat and then mounting them on a second row under their real stuff. Goodness knows why they felt they needed to..............
However, there was the case of a certain Mr. Roger Day who marched in a Remembrance Parade in 2009.
He had joined the Regular Army as a private soldier but left after 18 months. Then at the age of 61 (and dating a 37 year old) he decided to put on a SAS beret and a huge number of medals (copies and originals) that he had bought off ebay. Having awarded himself the Distinguished Service Order (and Bar) and the Military Cross, the numpty gave himself the Korea campaign medal, which meant that he would have been 5 years old when he went out there! He made several other medal mistakes as well, so he was comprehensively outed as a Walt. Even had the cojones to talk to a reporter a few days later and claim that he couldn't talk about the award of the medals because they were for "classified" operations.................. Not quite sure what kind of primary school sends their pupils out to war zones.
Net result was he had his medals confiscated, paid £40 costs and was given community service. Probably the biggest UK Walt I have read about.
But I really think you're barking up the wrong tree with the guy in the original photo.
If you have a lot of time to spare, get on Youtube and search for "Stolen Valour" or "Stolen Valor". Some great clips there! And if US Navy SEALs are your thing, watch anything by Don Shipley. Superb stuff.
