Sailor Gets 2 Years For Medal Offenses

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Washington Times
January 25, 2008
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A sailor convicted of wearing a Purple Heart, Bronze Star and other medals he did not earn was sentenced yesterday in Norfolk to two years in a military jail.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Dontae L. Tazewell also will receive a bad conduct discharge and be demoted to seaman.
The hospital corpsman at Yorktown Naval Weapons Station was found guilty Wednesday on 10 of 11 counts of wearing unauthorized ribbons.
Some of the honors recognized Tazewell for heroism during an ambush in Iraq. Tazewell said he rescued six Marines and recovered the bodies of four others, but his supervisors testified during his court-martial that the rescue never happened.
 
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