{"id":19847,"date":"2010-07-26T00:36:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T04:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19847"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:06:24","slug":"wramc-csm-busted-for-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19847","title":{"rendered":"WRAMC CSM busted for stolen valor *Bumped*"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to CNN<\/a>, a Sergeant Major has been busted at Walter Reed. CNN calls Stoney Crump THE Command Sergeant Major of WRAMC, but that’s not true – he’s one of the CSMs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the courses he is alleged to have attended were Reconnaissance School, Sniper School,; Drill Sergeant Course,; U.S. Army Ranger School and several Special Forces schools and courses, the Army charge sheet says.<\/p>\n

Crump is also charged with falsely stating in a biography he was a registered nurse. Other charges say he knowingly wore up to fifteen service ribbons and awards he was not entitled to wear, including a Marine Corps Combat Action ribbon and a Presidential Unit Citation, which is awarded for a extremely meritorious or heroic act, usually in the face of an armed enemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN got the Presidential Unit Citation wrong, too – it’s awarded to an entire unit that performs in an operation at a level that would warrant a Distinguished Service Cross for everyone in the whole unit, not a single act.<\/p>\n

Will you tell me why a Sergeant Major would feel a need to make shit up?<\/p>\n

I found an interview he did last year<\/a> in which he said “Never forget that you\u2019re a member of a time-honored corps and a legacy. I tell Soldiers when they look in a mirror they should see a whole line of faces behind them.” That quote may prove prophetic for former Sergeant Major Crump.<\/p>\n

When he looks in the mirror at Leavenworth, I’m pretty sure he’ll clearly see a whole line of faces behind him.<\/p>\n

What? Too soon?<\/p>\n

Thanks to stingerwooten<\/a> for dropping off the link in another post.<\/p>\n

*Bumped*<\/strong> There’s more about this peckerhead so I bumped the article up. Updates below the jump;
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\nArmy Times <\/a>writes some more. It seems he not only lied about his Marine Career, he lied about his college experience as well; <\/p>\n

Crump says he attended Marine boot camp in 1982 while pursuing a business degree with a pre-law concentration while on academic and athletic scholarships at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Crump says he was selected all-conference and that he had dreamed of playing football professionally.<\/p>\n

Crump also claimed to have walked away from the athletic scholarship to advance in the Marines.<\/p>\n

A Duke registrar\u2019s office clerk said there was no record of anyone by Crump\u2019s name attending classes during that period, nor did the university offer undergraduate degrees in business or pre-law. According to Ben Blevins, a sports information official, Crump\u2019s name is not on any Blue Devils football roster for that period.<\/p>\n

The registrar at East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C., said its records show Crump attended classes there for four semesters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He probably lied about attending Duke because it’s easier to spell that East Carolina University.<\/p>\n

In his essay, Crump says he was a recruit at Parris Island in 1982 then advanced to Infantry and Advanced Infantry School, where he said he graduated in the top 10 percent of his class, which in turn funneled him into the coveted Marine Corps Reconnaissance and Army Ranger Schools. From there, Crump says he advanced from trainee to rifleman to force reconnaissance team leader.<\/p>\n

A summary of Crump\u2019s military record released by Marine\u2019s Manpower and Reserve Affairs in Quantico, Va., contradicts many of these assertions.<\/p>\n

According to the record, Crump entered at Parris Island in October 1983 \u2013 a year later than he states in the essay \u2014 and exited the Marines in May 1986. He achieved the rank of lance corporal and held military occupational specialty 3051, the code for warehouse clerks.<\/p>\n

Crump attended Marine courses at the Army Transportation and Aviation Logistics Schools, Fort Eustis, Va., from January to March 1984, and worked in a supply company of the 4th Supply Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, in Raleigh, N.C., until he left the Marines for the Army in May 1986.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Instead of Ranger School and Marine Reconnaissance School he went to the Army’s Transportation School. Well they’re almost exactly the same, right? I mean, when the Ranger Battalions can’t get slots at Ranger School, they send folks to transportation School, don’t they?<\/p>\n

According to Army records, Crump enlisted as a medic. He participated in Operation Just Cause, the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, with the 142nd Medical Battalion. His only other overseas deployment was to Germany, with an armored unit, and later with medical units in Landstuhl and Heidelberg.<\/p>\n

Among other awards in his Army record, Crump received four Meritorious Service Medals, five Army Commendation Medals and six Army Good Conduct Medals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now why did he have to embellish a career like that? Four MSMs and five ArComs – maybe for a pogue that might not be much, but for an infantryman, it seems like a lot to be prooud of, instead of making shit up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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