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Question for US veterans: does the ROTC hand out meaningless 'medals'? [View all]
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We have this story of a 23 year old Ukrainian pretending to be an 18 or 19 year old high school student:
(CNN)To his Pennsylvania classmates and others, Asher Potts seemed to be the perfect high school student, a national honor society member who was active in his community and a lieutenant in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps.
But to authorities he is an impostor: not a teenager at all, but a 23-year-old Ukrainian national.
On Tuesday, the Harrisburg Police Department arrested Artur Samarin, 23, on charges of identity theft, tampering with public records and theft by unlawful taking.
Police said Samarin had obtained a driver's license under the name "Asher Potts." He later obtained a Social Security card and additional documents using his fake identity and false date of birth, police said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/25/us/pennsylvania-high-school-impostor/
But to authorities he is an impostor: not a teenager at all, but a 23-year-old Ukrainian national.
On Tuesday, the Harrisburg Police Department arrested Artur Samarin, 23, on charges of identity theft, tampering with public records and theft by unlawful taking.
Police said Samarin had obtained a driver's license under the name "Asher Potts." He later obtained a Social Security card and additional documents using his fake identity and false date of birth, police said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/25/us/pennsylvania-high-school-impostor/
Illiustrated with this photo of a 'certificate of recognition' in May 2014 from a state representative:
If he was calling himself 17 in Dec 2014, in May 2014 he was claiming to be 16 or 17. But he has a chestful of medal ribbons - 19, as far as I can see. He cannot have earned these in any campaign. Is the ROTC happy with random decoration of chests with someone else's medals? Or do they give them out like scout badges?
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