Was record exaggerated?
American Legion officials have launched an investigation into allegations that William R. Barbour Jr. of Auburn, a former state commander of the Legion and veterans affairs official of the Massachusetts National Guard, exaggerated his military record.Several veterans associated with the Auburn Legion post, of which Mr. Barbour, 61, is vice commander, say Mr. Barbour, a former enlisted man in the Navy and Air Force, claimed in their presence that he had been an Air Force lieutenant colonel, and that he frequently appeared in public with a badge worn by naval officers.
“I've heard him say he was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force,” said Lawrence J. Corbin III, treasurer of the Legion's Chester B. Tuttle Post 279 in Auburn and veteran's agent for the town of Auburn. “When you start representing yourself falsely for personal gain, that's when you start to cross the line.”
The Auburn post's junior vice commander, Dave Peckham, said he saw Mr. Barbour wearing the gold Navy Seabees combat warfare badge several years ago and that Mr. Barbour recently told him he had been a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force in Alaska.
“We confronted him about it,” Mr. Peckham said of the insignia. “He said ‘They told me I can wear it.' ”
In an interview, Mr. Barbour, now a senior vice commander of the Auburn chapter of the national organization of combat war veterans, said his comments about being a lieutenant colonel were joking references that have been taken out of context.
“It was all joke stuff that was misrepresented,” he said.
As for the gold Navy Seabees combat warfare badge, he said he stopped wearing it after he learned it was only for officers.
As allegations about Mr. Barbour have swirled in Legion circles over the last few months, state Legion officials at an executive board meeting June 18 formed a committee to look into the matter, said Jake Comer, past national commander of the American Legion and a member of the Massachusetts Legion's executive board.
“We have to be careful about the allegations, but we've set up a five-man investigative committee to go in there and see what's going on,” Mr. Comer said. “Once we find the allegations to be true, it's up to the Post to do whatever they're going to do.”
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In searching his files, Mr. Pulkkinen, who has since died, located another copy of Mr. Barbour's DD214 and found it had a different typeface and size than the other DD214, Mr. Pulkkinen said in his letter to Mr. Barbour. He asked Mr. Barbour to come to
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