Ashleigh Martel: Stolen Valor
I wanted to do a follow up on the post Jonn made. First thing I found was this link to when she was deployed with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad. List the same name and MOS.
Then I started to find these fun links, starting with this one. She was part of the other named Veteran’s in Jonn’s post. In the video she is making the claims that she was injured in Iraq.
Iraq War veteran Ashleigh Martel was told she would never speak again after shrapnel slit her throat. Now that her voice has returned, she vows to use it to educate others.
She is working at theKern County Veteran Services Department as of Nov 11th 2011. Also she was acting the part when Osama’s death was announced. Her part is at the end of the video.
“There’s a lot that still needs to be done, but I think this will give a lot of closure. I know personally for myself it will give closure for some of the things I’ve dealt with,” said Ashleigh Martel, a veteran.
She was even asked to be a guest speaker because of her having a alleged Purple Heart.
Yep, so with her MOS I wonder if there is anything else that the has faked on her records.
Category: Phony soldiers
Well, paper cuts can become infectious.
The trials and tribulations of the 71L cannot be overstated… espcially those with the F5 qualifier (postal clerk)
They’ve got it rough.
Boy, that’s one helluva scar on her neck. Almost looks like a second chin.
I remember seeing that same article. Which is why EVERYONE’s claims should be checked before the get behind a reporter’s microphone.
Its hard out there for a Pi-I mean Fobbit!
I don’t get theese people. I was electronics repair in a Forward Support Battalion. Did not deploy, then tactical network and radio. I was being being medicalled for 3 crushed vertabre and a blown knee prior to 9/11. I did the reach back from Germany for Task force Hawk and worked to get others deployed for Afghanistan. I am not ashamed of my service in any way. While I may not have served in combat the kids and teams I trained did and they did a great job. I feel guilty for not going with them but I know I did my job and did it well. I don’t need to lie about my service, I wish I could have done more but what I did was my best.
she was a part of 4/10. . .? oooo I heard some stories about them. They came out and replaced 2-2 and apparently there were a lot of rumors of prostitution rings, and drugs. this might explain a few things.
Looks like she was fairly active in the unauthorized junk food trade….
Redacted, you mean like the Twinkie smuggling ring? It would appear that the CID was closing in, and she ate the evidence.
Im guessing the twinkies were just a front for the ho ho’s and ding dongs. You don’t end up looking like a camoflauged parade float just from twinkies.
no way she passed Height and weight.
^^Like!!
I remember this girl. Well not her exactly.
It’s 140 Degrees outside, working like a slave on the helicopter. Platoon bossman says “Hey you gotta go to S1 and sign some papers”. I say okay and clean up as best I can. Trudge the 1/4 mile to S1 and walk in the front door into the air conditioned heaven that is climate control.
There she is, the desert flower. Hair pulled in a bun, about 50 pounds overweight, enough makeup to make a Mary Kay salesperson excited, sitting at her throne, and sweating. She levels her chubby gaze at me and in a flat tone she says “What do you want?”
Man that picture brought back some memories.
Doc, she passed it, on the way beyond height and weight.
Redacted, maybe she’s early for the Rose Parade?
In all fairness, she might be considered “Iraq hot” after 8 months into the deployment. And that’s the real tragedy for her… She was a deployment queen, and then tragedy struck when she came home and suddenly she wasn’t being found attractive anymore and wasn’t the center of attention.
“PowerPoint 10,000 Hours” patch and thinks Leatherman is one of the Village People.
Honestly
Do people like her actually think they are going to get away with stunts like this?
The phonies in the bars are one thing but when public appearances and money come into the equation, do these people even consider that someone might, just might want to verify their story?
Jeez
Of course, if she tripped, fell and got a cut/sprain needing medical treatment during an IRAM/mortar attack on her fortress-o’-FOB just once, then her Purple Heart could be legit… but still incredibly wussy.
Really? @1:49 “the shrapnel didn’t detonate until seconds later”. Must have been some top secret shit. I wasn’t aware that shrapnel detonated, I thought it was the result of a detonation. She was probably the one of the POGs I would hear bitching in the chow hall line when we would get to eat somewhere else besides an MKT once a month complaining that they were out of butter for the crab legs and lobster. Eat shit and die cum dumpster.
According to the articles, she’s married to a Staff Sergeant. I wonder what he, or his command, thinks of all this?
http://www.myspace.com/ashleighmartel
Apparently she is also “retired” from the Army. According to her Myspace page which I just posted.
They let you retire as a Specialist these days? Shit, and here I thought they might still have HYT and all that.
Where’s her neck wound?
Kate@ #23 – You mean you can’t see it? It’s that huge,ugly growth coming up out of her shoulders… ;^)
First off, I applaud this veteran’s service to our country and her recognition for actively participating in combat with the award of the Combat Action Badge. But for her to go and make claims she received a Purple Heart for wounds received in action and then speak at public events, luncheons, schools ect. That is just wrong! Apparently her story was so convincing she even took in actual Purple Heart recipients with her ‘convincing’ tale of the circumstances behind the award and lying about someone dying…truly despicable! But to find out it was all a lie just to bilk a non-profit organization out of thousands of dollars…that’s where I draw the line! I hope they take legal action against her and hopefully show the error of her ways! Then she can find out in jail, what a ‘deployment queen’ she is, when she’s fighting for cigarettes and to keep her ‘womanhood’ intact! Too bad we live in an age where we aren’t allowed to publicly humiliate her by tarring and feathering her! As a Purple Heart recipient myself, I can’t understand what possessed her to want to claim such an honor. Believe me, it’s not something you actively seek out during your service in a combat zone. I hope she learns the error of her ways! Veterans should proud of their service no matter what, and not embellish it! Service to your country, should be honor enough!
Stinger, first, “Service to your country, should be honor enough” is so true, someone has to be seriously messed up to go the distance she’s gone. Second, seeing what her MOS is, I’d be leery that she deserved anything. Other than the Distinguished Pen Medal, with cluster.
With her billet and the audacity she had to fraud the systm by giving herself a purple heart, that also brings the legitimacy of her CAB into question as well.
The fact this damn FOBBIT is even wearing my beloved 10th MTN patch pisses me off! Then she claims to be from the 4th BCT, our bastard stepchild BDE from Polk. I enjoy the fact that her subdued American flag is worn while she sits in her god damn kitchen! She must live in a bad neighborhood I guess….Climb to Glory!
Sadly I know this girl personally, and she is 100% full of crap!! Everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie. Everything from relationships, to want she does for a living is a lie. As for the scar in her neck, she had a thyroidectomy. As for her being married, not anymore that only lasted about a year, surprise surprise. I no longer associate with her. She seriously needs help, for the sake of her little daughter.
totally all try Abby 1, she is a total nut JOB, she states in her myspace shes a nurse… lol, she is nothing but a BIG FAT LIAR, and yes she had a thyroidectomy. Never ever heard her mention the one word in the year I knew her. She is obsessive and lies and if I was her family in the community I would be humilated.
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arby Says:
November 19th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Kate@ #23 – You mean you can’t see it? It’s that huge,ugly growth coming up out of her shoulders… ;^)
OK, THAT was funny.
Ooooh hell no! I didn’t originally watch the news clip till just now. That inflated POS is a real piece of work. She appears as if she has done her entire tour in the DFAC of Ali Al Salem fighting turkey legs & RIPPITs. How can you stand next to an amputee and spew that BS? She has some serious issues going on in that pumpkinhead of hers. I just checked AKO and wouldn’t you know it, she’s still in the Nasty Guard! We can get military charges on her nasty ass. How bout I just sling load her fluffy ass into Pakistan and we can call it even!
OMG!!!! I just saw this aired last week on the 29 news on the update of her; I had to go back and find the original newscast about her, and I could not believe she would stoop so low!!!! I agree with Abby…I too knew her, and how she lied and would cry at the drop of a hat to get her way!!! Her screaming fits with her parents and how they stayed by her side when she was having the thyroidectomy all the while saying “she’s only telling stories”…LIES!!!!!! She is nothing but a drama queen who has to be the center of attention!!!!!! She could never keep her stories straight..she should have kept a journal to keep to remember what lies she told whom. I pity her pour little daughter, she will be scorned her whole life for the way her mother has caused so much harm and dishonor to the REAL VETERANS WHO DESERVED THE PURPLE HEART!!!!!!!! She needs serious help and needs to serve time in prison.
I was in her unit and knew Matt, her ex, very well. When she first came to the unit she claimed her parents owned a hospital, not a med center, but the whole thing. Anyway, I feel bad for Matt, as sorry as he was, still no one deserves to live with that for a night more or less 18 years. I don’t know how she could have been injured in Iraq when she was sent home early because she got pregnant during the deployment. She was then pregnancy chaptered out of Fort Polk, LA.
Do you know what she might have done to have been awarded her CAB?
Probably got her CAB for defending the FOB against the perils Pizza Hut and midnight chow. By eating it all.
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I just wonder it was a mass award that some people claim happen in some units.
[…] honestly for some reason I am not bothered by her getting a BSM. I mean I would rather worry about Admin personal that lie about their awards to rip people off.But what say […]
[…] Williamson v. 16 Fatty McQuartermillion Pounder 8 Paul “PTSD Counselor” Schroeder v. 9 Asleigh “Shrapnel slit my throat” Martel 5 Jacob “read my plates bitch!” Cruze v. 12 Albert “Sensei Dick Munch” John 4 Dave “Tiger […]
I deployed with 4/10 on that one. She got that CAB for the rocket assisted motor attack on the FOB same everyone else…..
All support personnel got a cab on rustimyah,unfortunately there’s a darker side to army those that were there only two Sgt majors and a 1 st who cut his forehead W his blade during mortar attack got automatic purple hearts 8 soldiers wounded mild to moderate tbi at 5 25 moter pool rusty only got cabs only one other fob hit that night ashiegh used those reports for herself from rusty thinking they were real crater analysis places 1st Sgt 5 25 and Sgt major at other end of hhb compound rusty claimed tbi and war shrapnel wounds from self in flicked injuries while e-6 and soldiers below after being knocked unconscious battled fires and reacted like soldiers while 1st Sgt and Sgt major concocted there own version of what happened injured soldiers did there job and we’re threatened to go along with there bs story
Feb 19 2008 1745 pm crater analysis south side building 9 ft bast on side of building W soldiers 1st and Sgt major being on other end of building safe and secure hhb moter pool ao , Feb 19 2008 1830 pm tanker explodes hhb maintenence site hhb blast radio us 200 meters about 20 meters south of hhb moter pool basketball court was there and hummers for psd team
Good thing I took pictures the next day cuz myself and other 7 soldiers were disoriented the night before , I was in room five ft from 9 foot crater when it hit after being knocked unconscious and dazed went out after other soldiers got us out of blown in room went out and put out fires in motor pool during incoming new tops story was bs took pictures next day for proof learned later had mild tbi 2 ruptured ear drums and deviated septum from blast exposures -stress fractures throughout spine just to name a few b itches like her and Frick frauds chasen awards oh and after my career and 7 other soldiers were ended a year after we got back from our injuries 1st Sgt and Sgt major were given purple hearts and bronze stars with Valor worked for another 2 years yes two years in army W out any med problems from it and received full medical and VA for there stolen Valor by the way of the soldiers that sacrificed actual injury that served under them bear the burden of there lies and struggled w recovery while they collect double retirement pay and wear there medals both proudly both were hired full time 50 hrs week jobs right out army – justice is coming it might take a long time but the more people Com forward the better
Yeah I was On that deployment with 4/10 and new her husband well. She a piece of shit and did nothing at all the 14 months we were there but stuff her face.
that bitch needs to be sent to jail, how can she claim something like that? what a disgusting piece of “person” and the saddest part… she was speaking to kids? wow such a bitch
[…] 16 Fatty McQuartermillion Pounder v. 9 Asleigh “Shrapnel slit my throat” Martel […]
We had a woman in our platoon receive a Purple Heart for getting some shattered glass in her arm during a rocket attack…which is funny because I was standing right next to her when it happened and we were no where near a window and I don’t recall her being hurt. Another guy got a Purple Heart for getting a tiny piece of shrapnel in his chest, which made me think of the Korean vet I worked with before deployment who constantly had little shards of shrapnel working their way out of his body. So yeah, sometimes those Purple Hearts are given to people for stupid reasons…but why do you say she faked getting one?
I served in Army reserves as an 88M. When I was deployed to Iraq, sure I saw things like IED’s. That
was mostly an anomoly though. Ususally it was just long boring hours on the road. Of course, over there boring is good!? LOL I have a scar on my neck too. that’s because I got papillary thyroid cancer and my thyroid had to be removed. That is all, I’m cancer free now. I just wondering if this young lady had the same thing and is playing it off into her grandiose story? If so, that embarrasses me as a female veteran and makes all female vets look bad!
@44 She says she had her “throat slit by shrapnel”. That’s why we say she is faking it. The evidence doesn’t add up.
Ironically, I know a guy who really did get hit in the throat, and even almost 8 years later still doesn’t talk right.
Furthermore, I have a hard time believing shrapnel could penetrate her chins (yes, plural) and hit her throat.
Oh I forgot to add, I do not have a CAB. How on God’s green Earth did SHE get one?? However, since I did not rightfully earn one, I’m definitely okay with that. I was just a lowly truck driver. I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for what I’m not. 🙂
Wait…she looks familiar. Im wandering if she was at FOB Rustamiyah in 2007 when i was. I was with a different unit, but I would put money that she was there. She probably got the CAB from the IRAM attack, all the HHQ 4/10 people did I believe.
To Jack: if you were still there past November 2007 then yeah. That was her. 4/10 was the last of the surge brigades. We were stuck there from November 07 to January 09. A few months in they moved brigade HQ from rusty to Loyalty.
For everyone else: the reason why do many people believed her story was because it was true for the most part. It just never happened to her. It happened to my squad leader who happened to be friends with her husband st the time. And it wasn’t an RPG attack on an MRAP. Anyone who’s gone outside the wire knows a single RPG won’t do shit to an MRAP except pop the tires. My squad leader was in the lead humvee of our convoy on a quick stop to loyalty before heading back to commando bar. His truck got hit with an EFP and luckily he only lost a pinky and a toe. The only reason this bitch knew anything about it is cause it happened less than a hundred meters from Loyalty’s front gate. Great job with FOB security HHC. You can build an indestructible buffet style chow hall for the fobbits but you can’t find one POG to keep his eyes open long enough during force pro to notice the insurgent burying explosives outside your gate.
ALCON,
My name is Matthew Martel and I am the ex-husband of this Soldier. I became aware of this whole scandal yesterday, 22 Jan 2013. I would like to express my sincere apologies to all of our brothers and sisters in arms, especially to those who have received a purple heart. I can tell you guys a lot of things about Ashleigh both good and bad. I do not condone her actions and feel embarrassed probably more than anyone. I can tell you guys that she did receive a CAB for the being around the numerous mortar attacks on both Rusty and Loyalty. As for her scar, she did have her surgery to remove her thyroid as he gave her numerous complications which led to other problems resulting in the loss of our son (he died in my hands). So go ahead and make fun of her weight if you’d like but I can tell you this, y’all don’t know even a fraction of the medical issues she has undergone. I know exactly what she had gone through as I was by her side through all of it.
To The Truth NCO,
I don’t know who you are nor do I care. Go ahead and call me a piece of shit or say I’m a sorry person, or whatever you like, I really don’t give a damn. But get your facts straight before you speak. She was not sent home early from deployment as we both left on the same day, Jan 4, 2009. We were in fact one of the last flights out of Iraq/Kuwait. And if you really want to know when we got pregnant it was soon after we returned from deployment. I know, I was fucking there.
I don’t care what y’all say about her in the sense that she lied about this purple heart, cuz she did. But unless you know everything else, please don’t say a word. If you have questions regarding our personal life come talk to me. I’m not hard to find.
V/R
Matthew J. Martel
SSG
US Army