Dick Stoops on an Honor Flight
Robin sends us a link to High Plains Daily which reports that someone let Dick Stoops on an Honor Flight to DC and greeted by his Senator, Jerry Moran. We got Stoops’ records three years ago when the Kansas National Guard was going to induct him into their Hall of Fame. We stopped that and the Kansas City Star did a story about our adventures. The family told the Star that Stoops was dying and in the hospital because of his exposure. Now this;
The opportunity for Stoops travel to the nation’s capital was made possible by volunteers and donors acting through Honor Flight – a nonprofit organization created solely to honor America’s veterans. During their trip to D.C., veterans have the opportunity to visit the memorials built in their honor.
Stoops had told everyone that he had been in the 187th Regimental Combat Team and had three combat parachute jumps during the war in Korea. It turns out that Stoops didn’t arrive in Korea until the war was over, and had never made a combat jump. He was assigned to a Service Company in the 187th. In fact there were only two combat jumps in Korea, both made by the 187th. Notice in the above picture that he’s wearing a Purple Heart patch – that’s a lie, he has no Purple Heart.
Dick Stoops’ most egregious act was when he went back in the National Guard after the Vietnam War and used his vastly inflated career to convince someone to let him back in based on his lies. Apparently, all of that stuff you see him wearing at the link is what he had convinced someone in the Guard that he earned – the reason they were putting him in their Hall of Fame. And since he’s rocking that Purple Heart patch, I’m guessing he’s back to his old tricks hoping everyone forgot his publicity a few years back.
They should have given that Honor Flight trip to someone who didn’t lie about their service.
Category: Phony soldiers
Here’s hopong a copy of this is being sent to Sen Moran, and to Duane Dunn at Kansas State so they can see how Stoops has made fools out of them.
Disgusting.
At this point in his life, he may actually think that his own lies are the truth. That hardly excuses everyone else who knows better and gives things to him that others have earned. Or him either – just that there may be nothing that can be said to dissuade him now.
Remembering all the veterans in my family who are now gone, many of whom succumbed to one form of dementia or another, not one of them ever dishonored his own military service by lying about it.
Stolen Valor recidivism; who would have figured???
Am I missing something? I thought the Honor Flight program was for WWII vets. Does it now include Korean vets?
Not sure when it happened or even if it is official, but yeah, local Korean War vets are pretty much the only ones doing Honor Flights these days. Would posit that the diminishing number of WWII vets available and able to travel is the determining factor.
Poetrooper, it now includes WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vets.
@3. Tina Kerstner and and Chelle Lynn Tesla Coil were also repeat offenders.
Well now, perhaps he can be sued to recoup the cost of his flight, hotel, transport, meals, whatever, on the basis of fraud?
Jonn: if memory serves, Stoops also claimed on at least one occasion to have been a POW. That was also a damned lie.
Screw this LSoS a$$hole. Preferably with an ocotillo stalk.
Dick Stoops…Sounds like a venereal disease
The family told the Star that Stoops was dying and in the hospital because of his exposure.
Looks like he’s doing pretty well to me.
Eff him, and eff his entire family if they’re participating in this bullshit.
No mercy.
I thought the revised Stolen Valor Act criminalized lying about your service for financial gain. I would think an Honor Fight trip would be financial gain. Are they going after him?
I’m sure they won’t be happy when they find out about it.
Another fine example of what Senior Chief (Ret.) Don Shipley was referring to in one of his videos when he said “A lot of these posers will take their lies to the grave with them.”.
An old, gnarly turd.
This is a good organization with a great cause. To bad they do not check a little deeper.
His actual service would have qualified him to take the Honor Flight, right? However, the lies are still inexcusable.
I’ve written to the Honor Flight folks requesting they take my stepmother, but I never got a response.
http://writesong.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-stepmother-alma-capps-mallernee.html
If anybody deserves it, I certainly think she does.
Each state has their own Honor Flight hub or hubs. Some states have only one hub and some states have many hubs. Some cities such as Chicago have multiple hubs. Each of the hubs is run by the committee that started it and it is not unusual for the hubs to work completely independently of each other and even have their own policy and procedure. They are supposed to follow the policy and procedure set forth by the National organization but that is not always the case. @17 I do not know who you wrote to but I suggest you do a web search and locate the closest hub to your location. They usually have a web site where you can download an application for the WWII veteran. Depending on the hub’s policy, you may be able to fill out an escort application and go on the trip with your step mother. There will be some cost for the escort to go but the WWII veteran should not be charged anything at all. Because hubs can close, I would look for a phone number on the website of the hub you choose and call them just to be sure they are still flying before sending in the application. Honor Flight hubs are supposed to take all eligible WWII veterans and any terminally ill veteran from all other US involved wars. Some hubs have talked about continuing the Honor Flight for Korean War veterans and Viet Nam veterans after all of the WWII veterans who are able to make the trip have gone. This is entirely up to the individual hub. The cost of the trip varies depending on location of the hub. Some hubs fly commercial and some fly charter. Some take a dozen veterans per trip and some take close to one hundred. There are many variables and yes, some hubs are much better than others. Some hubs have a strong veteran influence due to committee members being veterans and some do not. For a hub to be successful they have to raise a LOT of money. I am… Read more »