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Another Special Forces & "Special Operations" fraud and bottom feeding coward...... Command Sgt. Maj. Stoney Crump


Ex-Walter Reed CSM accused of faking his record

By Joe Gould and Jim Tice - Staff writers
Posted : Sunday Jul 25, 2010 9:16:51 EDT

A former command sergeant major at Walter Reed Army Medical Center fired for allegedly faking his record and wearing unauthorized awards and decorations faces military discipline for a series of bold deceptions that span several years and multiple commands, according to the charges against him.

Sgt. Maj. Stoney N. Crump, the senior enlisted adviser to the medical center’s brigade until May 17, twice submitted official biographies that falsely claimed he attended a range of elite schools including Ranger School, Sniper School, Special Forces Assessment Course and Special Operations Combat Medic School, according to the charging documents. He also claimed to have attended the exotic Panamanian Jungle Warfare School, according to the documents.

Between March 2006 and April 2010, at Walter Reed and in Heidelberg, Germany, where Crump served as the Army health center’s command sergeant major, he is charged with repeatedly wearing 11 unearned awards and decorations, including the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with an Arrowhead device — an indication that he had made a combat jump into Grenada, a deployment that appears nowhere in a summary of his 27-year career that was released by Army Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Ky.

Crump worked for an actual Medal of Honor recipient, Col. Gordon Roberts, the commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Brigade. Roberts relieved Crump for “unauthorized claim/wear” of honors and insignia, according to Chuck F. Dasey, Walter Reed’s strategic communications director.

Crump could not be reached for comment. Dasey said Crump is being represented by an attorney with Fort Belvoir Trial Defense Services, where a representative declined to comment on the case.

Crump has been charged with violating three articles of military law: failure to obey an order or regulation, Article 92; making false official statements, Article 107, and Article 134, a general provision covering conduct that brings discredit on the armed forces.

James Dale, the command sergeant major of the Army’s Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas, when Crump graduated in 2007, now retired, told Army Times he did not remember Crump but suggested the NCO’s current plight might serve as a cautionary tale.

“I don’t know what motivated this individual. It’s absolutely a breach of what we learn as NCOs in the Army,” Dale said. “I don’t know what to say other than that maybe someone about to make a bad decision might think again.”

Crump’s apparent deceptions have shown up beyond the medical commands mentioned in the criminal charges.

In the book “100 Sergeants Major of Color,” a who’s who of African-American sergeants major, Crump is credited with a Senior Parachutist Badge which he allegedly did not earn along with several awards that he did.

To receive the badge, a soldier must have jumped 30 times and served in an airborne or equivalent unit. Crump’s record includes neither the badge, service in such a unit nor a basic jump qualification.

An 2006 autobiographical essay that then-Master Sgt. Crump penned for the Sergeants Major Academy contains details about his Marine Corps service and collegiate history that do not stand up to close scrutiny.

The essay was in an online archive at the Combined Arms Research Library.

In it, 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.

Crump also claimed to have walked away from the athletic scholarship to advance in the Marines.

A Duke registrar’s office clerk said there was no record of anyone by Crump’s 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’s name is not on any Blue Devils football roster for that period.

The registrar at East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C., said its records show Crump attended classes there for four semesters over this period: fall of 1982, spring and summer of 1983, and summer 1985. She said that Crump did not receive a degree, but majored in industrial technology and had been in good academic standing.

Crump appears on the ECU football team’s 1983 roster as a cornerback, said Sarah Fetters, assistant director of athletics at the university. That year, the Pirates were ranked No. 20 in an Associated Press poll and finished the season with eight wins and three losses.

Questionable Marine credentials
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.