Hah!
That takes a set of stones. Well, sorta.
Maybe she is related to "Deep in the Hurtgen Forest", a past Freeper!
Decorated with 10 medals after only a couple months should have raised an alarm, if the Meredith officials had any familiarity with our military.
"Reporting for duty".
Oh, what a web we weave . . .
"Her story was so elaborate. She was involved in everything. She single-handedly saved the country," said Cynthia Stroot, acting resident agent in charge of the Department of Defense's Criminal Investigative Service in Raleigh. "Someone who knew better eventually caught up with the story."
That someone was Campus Police Chief Frank Strickland, who was an Army pilot during the Vietnam War. Strickland contacted federal investigators with his suspicions about Phillips, whose medals, investigators say, included the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and a Meritorious Service Medal.
College officials were tight-lipped about how they were duped.
Wonder if the Chief gets to keep his job?
Easy to guess why the officials were duped. If you know little or nothing about the military, anything and everything seems plausible in the ivory towers.
LOL. Sounds like she convinced them that she was a pilot by acting like an arrogant, strutting jerk...looks like you don't need the Y chromosome to pull it off.
This can be easily explained as well. She volunteered for a Top Secret mission out of Area-51 where she would be sent back in time using technology from a crashed alien spaceship. She travelled back to WWII and used her superior flying and technical skills to help America win WWII.
One of lowest crimes you'll see - folks pinning on medals, knowing they are not entitled to wear them or as in the case of this nutter, going the whole nine yards and faking military service.
The Walter Mitty Order of Extreme Excellence . . . hmmm.
Hah!
I'm sure she said her name was Captain (now Lt Col) Carter. Saving the US and planet week after week.
If military service is all that it takes, I want my tuition waived too.
Uhhh. Where do I start?
Isn't that already illegal?
All the idiot college would have needed to prove her service was a DD214 ... which you'd think some idiot in the admissions and scholarshiop office would have requested in return for waiving $42,000 in tuition. What kind of loose ship are they running there, anyway? Sheesh.
BTW- suitable punishment- send this young lady to Afghanistan for a year to launder fatigues and serve MRE's.
the most serious of which was impersonating a United States Senator.
Did she carry a "Magic hat" in her bookbag?
Yeah, that's the ticket!A modern Captain of Copenhaagen, eh?
I read the whole thing. but I have to admit that I had my reservations about opening a link called "new sob server..."