Stolen Valor is a law that covers expressly a person making false claims of military service or embleishing their actual service history in order to recive a financial gain. The person also has to claim certain things for example that they where rewarded a combat medal(bronze star,silver star) when they did not in fact recive such awards.
I'm just posting this as a good number of people misunderstand what Stolen Valor actually dose.
Here is what the bill/law actually covers
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013
So basically it means that the crazy dude that makes silly stories up while still morally wrong he is not breaking any law. That also means that the posers you find in public are not violating any law either until they do it to make financial gains. I recon they could be charged with impersonating an officer if they where claiming to be one. Of course they simply state that they are a military reenactor.
Now what Son Shipley dose I like he dose it right. I have seen other "stolen valor" videos some like the Ranger who calls out a man posing as a Ranger are OK as you can tell that the vet was genuinely angry. Others that I have seen to be honest I'm not sure if the video makers are vets or the type of vet they claim to be either.
https://m.youtube.com/user/Buds131 Shipley
mall guy
sure this guy is a slope these guys are not Army either how do I know? They question why he dose not have an airborne tab along with his Ranger tab. Obviously they do not know that the Airborne tab (school) is not a requirement to being a Ranger. So for them
cause they are either not military or massive pouges.
Don't get me wrong I have no or problem with someone calling outva fake but at least do it professionally like Shipley dose have some military bearing.