{"id":77212,"date":"2018-01-19T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77212"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:29","slug":"staff-sergeant-joshua-stokes-active-duty-nco-alters-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77212","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes; active duty NCO alters records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/01\/18\/this-nco-faked-his-way-into-the-82nd-airborne-and-he-almost-got-away-with-it\/\">The Army Times<\/a> tells the story of Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes who faked his way into the 82d Airborne Division despite the fact that he hadn&#8217;t attended the Basic Airborne Course. He even had performed parachute jumps. The director of the Defense Military Pay Office told investigators that Stokes had never received jump pay. <\/p>\n<p>Stokes had put a Purple Heart and a Combat Infantryman Badge in his records, even though he had never deployed to combat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After pulling records from EMILPO, the investigator discovered that in one instance, 10 records had been added to Stokes\u2019 file on one day in 2007, many of them for events years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>They included an Army Commendation Medal, a Good Conduct Medal, a Combat Infantryman Badge and two Overseas Service Ribbons. When contacted, the clerk who inputted the decorations said that, per policy, she only added awards into the system when she had physical documentation to support them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely that SSG Stokes was able to produce false documents \u2026 to have these put into his records,\u201d according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good, long, complicated story that you should read at the link. <\/p>\n<p>The upshot is that Stokes has been administratively separated from the Army, but they won&#8217;t discuss the character of his discharge.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times tells the story of Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes who faked his way into &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes; active duty NCO alters records\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77212\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes; active duty NCO alters records<\/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":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77212","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=77212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}