{"id":20021,"date":"2010-08-06T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20021"},"modified":"2010-08-06T05:32:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:32:35","slug":"phony-soldier-planted-with-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20021","title":{"rendered":"Phony Soldier planted with stolen valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:<\/strong> COB6 got a copy of his DD214 from the cemetery that says he did go to Vietnam and earned 3 PHs and 4 BSMs. However, he doesn’t appear in POW Net’s database of Vietnam veterans. I’ve added the rest of his 2-1s to this post. It appears that the DD214 is a forgery, since it seems unlikely that the records center would inadvertly leave BSMs and PHs out of his records.<\/em><\/p>\n

A new reader sent us a tip about Donald L. Stump, a retired Army Reserve sergeant first class, who was buried in Illinois upon his demise recently;<\/p>\n

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The problem is that he didn’t earn a Bronze Star or 3 Purple Hearts, yet there they are on his tax payer-funded headstone;<\/p>\n

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Stump’s service ended in 1964, with his only overseas duty station listed as an APO NY address. Then his service started again in 1971;
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Notice that it’s all stateside. None of his 2-1s show that he went to Jump School, Ranger School or the SFQC, yet there it all is on his FOIA. It looks to me like he spent a lot of his Reserve time as an Oh-5-Bravo radio guy at a higher echelon support role, nothing that would lead someone to believe he was an A-Team ops sergeant like the last line of the 2-1 records. Anyone ever heard of the Duty MOS 11BSF1? If I’m not mistaken there was an 11B5S ops sgt position. But I doubt that an Oh-5-Bravo would just lateral over to an eleven-bee-four slot.<\/p>\n

His obituary tells quite a story about his career;<\/p>\n

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In Vietnam from 1965 until 1971? His records show he wasn’t even in the military during those years. 140 jumps in Vietnam- 50 of them behind enemy lines?\u00a0 Which enemy lines would those be? And how’d he find time to get those Bronze Star medals what with all of that pre-jump refresher for those 140 jumps? As far as I know, there was one combat jump in Vietnam by the 173rd – that’s quite a bit fewer than 140, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Notice at the top of the 2-1 it says he had eight years of prior service. that’s the period from 1956 until 1964 when his records end. He wasn’t in Vietnam from 1965 – until 1971 like he says. Those were the years he sat out the Vietnam War. And it looks like he snowed some Reservist clerk to add his Ranger tab and jump wings, since none of his records show any time in those schools.<\/p>\n

But now here he is, planted next to heroes with his DD214 on his headstone and it doesn’t look like he belongs there. Who is going to tell his wife, kids and grandchildren he doesn’t belong there? <\/p>\n

Victimless crime indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: COB6 got a copy of his DD214 from the cemetery that says he did … Phony Soldier planted with stolen valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}