Does @Catheri79452680, a now-suspended zero-tweet #StolenValor account have frens? To find more, we looked at the other accounts followed by its followers, under the working theory that folks who follow one stolen valor account back might follow others.
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@Catheri79452680 @ZellaQuixote By exploring the network in this fashion and filtering to accounts whose profiles contained “military”, “army”, “navy”, “marine(s)”, “air force”, or “USAF”, we located a total of 43 stolen valor accounts with no tweets and 2019 creation dates. 
@Catheri79452680 @ZellaQuixote We’re not going to drag out this thread by including dozens of screenshots of image searches, but suffice to say these #StolenValor accounts also use stolen pics. Some are photographs of well-known individuals while others appear to be from random folks’ social media pages.
@Catheri79452680 @ZellaQuixote Who do these #StolenValor accounts follow? Based on the hashtags used in their profiles, #MAGA accounts are their most frequent target, although left-wing hashtags and various marketing/tech-related terms turn up as well.
@Catheri79452680 @ZellaQuixote Finally, we broke down the #StolenValor accounts by gender, rank, and country of deployment. Here are the results - 79.1% are female and 15.5% are generals, among other things. Comparing these ratios to the actual makeup of the US military is left as an exercise for the reader.
@Catheri79452680 @ZellaQuixote Here's a previous thread on exploring a #StolenValor accounts network in search of bots. . .
@Catheri79452680 @ZellaQuixote . . . and while we're on the topic of #StolenValor, who could forget the venerable General H. R. McCatfish?
