By the Military Uniforms Law it is illegal to wear a military uniform that could misrepresent themselves, and it most protect the dignity of the uniform, and honor those who are or have been authorized to wear them.
A uniform, under law, includes the “distinctive” parts of the uniform, such as the military’s combat badges, police badges, military campaign ribbons, and medals earned by the person wearing the uniform.
In the photo attached to the story Michael Mason (red shirt) of the American Legion post 323 talks the person. The gentlemen says he is retire Air Force retire 1961 but is not wearing the correct uniform as required by law.
When we try to verify the organization he so calls represents the phone number is no long in service.
The laws making it illegal to wear uniforms without authority have a number of exceptions, these include:
- U.S. military retirees may wear the uniform of the service from which they retired and the insignia of the rank earned at the time of their retirement.
- Persons honorably discharged from military service may wear their uniforms while traveling from the place they were discharged to their homes, and may do so within three months of the discharge.
- Persons who are not on active duty but who served honorably in time of war in any U.S. military branch may wear their uniforms bearing the highest rank held during the war.
- Actors making war movies may wear the uniform of the service branch they portray.
- Officers and residents of veterans’ homes that are administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs may wear their uniforms as prescribed by the secretary of the military branch in which they served, such as the Secretary of the Army.
- Civilians attending a course of military instruction may wear the uniform of the service branch administering the course.
- A citizen of a foreign country who graduates from a U.S. Air Force school may wear the appropriate aviation badges of the Air Force.
Under federal law, whoever within the jurisdiction of the United States, or in the Panama Canal Zone, who wears a uniform without authorization may be sentenced to six months of imprisonment and fined, the amount of which is determined by the court.
The shopping center there the Fake Veterans Organization was asked them to leave and ever come back.