{"id":46793,"date":"2020-08-19T20:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/08\/19\/army-veteran-gets-12-months-prison-time-for-stolen-valor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:47:40","slug":"army-veteran-gets-12-months-prison-time-for-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/08\/19\/army-veteran-gets-12-months-prison-time-for-stolen-valor\/","title":{"rendered":"Army veteran gets 12 months prison time for stolen valor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Army veteran who lied about receiving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/02\/14\/soldier-earns-purple-heart-after-rpg-hit-his-ch-47-chinook\/\" target=_blank>Purple Heart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/08\/11\/combat-controllers-valor-award-to-be-upgraded-to-silver-star\/\" target=_blank>Silver Star<\/a> medals received the maximum prison sentence of 12 months on Tuesday, according to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gregg Ramsdell, 61, of Columbus, Georgia, also received three years of supervised release and he was ordered by the court to repay $76,000 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/08\/18\/coronavirus-deaths-among-veterans-affairs-patients-rising-in-august\/\" target=_blank>Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramsdell pleaded guilty in December to lying about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/08\/13\/inside-a-fatal-ranger-raid-that-killed-an-isis-k-emir-in-afghanistan\/\" target=_blank>serving in Afghanistan<\/a> between 2008 and 2009. He also admitted to falsely claiming to have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder when he applied for disability payments through the VA in 2014, according to court records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramsdell said he saw \u201cmen, women and children being executed. Women holding babies while detonating themselves. IED explosions causing severe bodily injuries and death. Retrieving body parts and bagging them. Having blood and body excrements being blown onto my uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those experiences made him \u201cunable to live a normal life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Ramsdell was not in Afghanistan during the years he claimed, according to VA and FBI investigators. His claims were in violation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/05\/07\/lead-investigator-in-green-beret-murder-case-pleads-guilty-to-stolen-valor-charges\/\">Stolen Valor Act<\/a>, which makes it a crime for people to pass themselves off as war heroes \u201cin order to claim money, employment, property or other tangible benefits,\u201d the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/01\/14\/army-veteran-faces-federal-prison-time-fines-for-stolen-valor-and-lying-about-ptsd\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1002929908.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Army veteran faces federal prison time, fines for Stolen Valor and lying about PTSD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">An Army vet claimed $76,000 in benefits before he was caught lying about his service record and having PTSD.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnyone who lies about serving our country to illegally take tax payer money from federal programs that help deserving veterans must be held accountable to the full extent of our laws,\u201d said Chris Hacker, special agent in charge of FBI\u2019s Atlanta office, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramsdell did serve in various Army components, including the National Guard and the Reserve, beginning in 1981. He was honorably discharged in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VA gave Ramsdell PTSD benefits retroactive to his 2014 discharge date totaling $76,000. He also received a civilian job at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramsdell received the Fort Benning job offer in part because his resume listed that he was both a Silver Star and Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster recipient, the court records stated. But he never received those awards, the documents added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Silver Star medal is the third-highest military award for valor in combat. 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