Stephen Fox; embellishing for VA bennies

One of our fans on Facebook sent us an article about former Fort Drum Corporal Stephen Fox whose plight for VA benefits was highlighted in a local news story in the Los Angeles Daily News earlier this month;

After serving multiple tours of duty in Iraq, dodging mortars and roadside bombs, Army Cpl. Stephen Fox came home to Tarzana with a traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and a host of additional ailments.

“We got blown up, like, every day, and then there was other stuff, too,” said the 26-year old former infantryman, recalling the time he was among the first responders to arrive after an explosion in Kirkuk that left 80 dead and 170 wounded.

“It was terrible,” he said quietly.

Even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was well aware of his returning condition — providing him with free medical treatment at its Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center — it still took two years to process his claim for disability benefits.

Well, the person who wrote us was squad leader in a different platoon than Fox, but he says that Fox is full of shit;

He was deployed with 3rd PLT 1-87 IN 10th Mountain from August 07-October 09. We were deployed to the Kirkuk Province but our sister battalion 2-22 was in the actual city of Kirkuk. Our battalion operated out of FOB McHenry in Hawijah, Iraq and our company was roughly 10 miles at FOB Baker.

CPL Fox is the soldier making the statements but is out [of the Army] now which you’ll read in the story. Basically we did take some incoming mortar rounds sporadically, we had no catastrophic IED’s and none he was in, and didn’t [get] hit everyday. I was in 1st PLT but the entire company was together on a small FOB and we knew every significant contact that happened on each platoons patrols. But the kicker is that he states he was a first responder in “Kirkuk” to an explosion that left 80 dead and 140 wounded. Which again you’ll [read in] his statements in the news article.

I was a staff sergeant squad leader and from what I’m learning he may not have even deployed a second time. He was a new private after we deployed to Baghdad then deployed with us. I left for drill sergeant duty 7 months later before they deployed to Afghanistan so I’m trying to confirm if he never deployed again through people still at ft drum

He pretty much fabricated stories from other peoples experiences and blew them out of proportion. We had a few guys write the news reporter and she explained that everything she wrote is what he had said. He’s been getting blasted with over 300 comments on just my friends post that he wrote after my initial post. He was on there backtracking and making himself look like even more of a liar. So pretty much in two words he’s a shit bag that fabricated stories to seem more than he was.

This is the second one of these guys from Fort Drum who has been caught lying by his mates. I guess they figure that they’re the only people on the internet.

Category: Phony soldiers