Stephan Holloway; still on the phony pony
We wrote about Stephan Holloway back in May when AverageNCO spotted a news story about him and his nine Purple Hearts. The NPRC wasn’t particularly helpful when they sent us two contradictory DD 214s for the same period. One said that he had 9 Purple Hearts, the other said that he didn’t. Both faded discharges agreed that he had been a supply guy in a Transportation unit in Vietnam.
Holloway claimed that he had flown a helicopter as it fell 600 feet to the ground after the pilot was killed. I guess that the co-pilot had been on a coffee break. Holloway went on to claim that he’d been a prisoner of war, in spite of DPAA to the contrary. He also claimed that he was a special forces soldier in Vietnam, neither DD214 indicated that was true.
Well, the Times Free Press has been trying to get to the bottom of the story, so they contacted him this Fall;
When Holloway was contacted in mid-June and again in October and November seeking documentation of his Purple Hearts citations and other awards, he didn’t offer proof. He offered excuses.
“I’d have to look,” Holloway started. “I threw when I came back from ‘Nam, I threw everything away, so I’ve got a few things and I’ll have to [look for them].”
After being told that Kendrick and others believe he faked the DD-214 bearing the long list of awards, Holloway dodged.
He said he was going out of town said he would call when he got back, but he never called.
In October, he again said he’d thrown everything away, adding that he was being treated for cancer.
In November, as another Veterans Day passed, Holloway still had not proved his claims. He said he was being treated for prostate cancer, was in line for knee replacement surgery, had kidney failure and bleeding behind his eyes and now was going blind.
Did he maintain his claim to the nine Purple Hearts?
“Yes, just leave me alone and let me get this stuff done and I will do it for you,” Holloway said on Nov. 14.
The Times Free Press extended an ongoing offer to seek the documentation with Holloway’s permission, but he declined again.
“No, because you can’t find nothing about me, do you?” he said. “That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You’re not finding nothing about me.”
Why is that?
“I don’t know,” he said.
Asked if he was lying about his record, Holloway bristled, “No, and I’m getting tired of talking to you about it, actually.”
On Nov. 28, Holloway didn’t answer his phone or return the call after a message was left.
Yeah, he threw away all of his documentation, but he still yaks about his 44 medals and his nine Purple Hearts and calls himself the most decorated Vietnam veteran – neither DD214 supports those claims.
He also claims that Lyndon Johnson pinned some of those medals on him;
He also claimed he earned more than 50 medals in all, including a second Silver Star, three Army Commendation Medals, three presidential citations and scores of others.
“I’ve got 57 medals,” Holloway proudly proclaimed, remarking that some were pinned to his chest by President Lyndon B. Johnson himself.
“And I hated President Johnson,” Holloway said. “Johnson was the one who gave me these. He pokes you every time he puts them on.”
I can’t imagine a trip to the White House to get a Silver Star or an ARCOM with a valor device. Presidential citations are unit awards, not individual medals. And there are no Presidential citations on any of his DD214s. I doubt that a supply clerk in a Transportation unit would find himself in a situation to earn nine Purple Hearts or fly a helicopter.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
NINE Purple Hearts? Gotta give him credit for “Go big or go home.” That’s got to be a record.
Too bad his dog ate all the paperwork.
“Nein”
He broke his taint NINE TIMES!
STEPHAN HOLLOWAY = STOLEN VALOR COCKSUCKER!
9 Purple Hearts. I’m going with no on that one.
Nope–some gent in GA (since deceased) claimed ten. No proof of it, but hey, he was there and you weren’t, dammit!
So he had Sandinmanginitis 9 times and claims a PH for each episode?
Looks like he is eating his shirt.
He’s slurping down the free bowl of soup that came with that shirt
Nine paper cuts perhaps?
That second DD214 is a duplicate of the first one that they stuck back in a typewriter and added the (9) Purple Hearts/Bronze Star/ARCOM W/V then took it out and then stuck it back in and typed SILVER STAR as an afterthought.
Sure looks that way. The misalignment of everything else carrys over to the second one.
Finally, we have found the often claimed secret DD-214. /s
Why 2 DD 214?
I have 2 DD-215’s in addition to my 214. Basically, says I got some more medals because I was stop-lossed and went the fuck home after the Gulf War.
My 214 states only what I had the moment I left. The 215’s came much later.
Then I have a final 214 after my 8 years passed.
Something like DD-214 Form 4 Member Copy after the 8 years but a shorter one when you ETS?
Mine were written on an Etch-A-Sketch because they ran out of ribbon for the Underwood No. 7 typewriters.
Perhaps LBJ poked him 8 more times awardinfgone purple heart?
Maybe he had his squeak hole poked 8 times and he just imagined it was LBJ.
…or maybe he’s just a lying sack of utter crap???
He’s boring, too. I think GT would label him just another gnarly old turd.
Gotta love the go to phony excuse for sympathy hoping people will go away: “I have cancer”….
yeah that’s the ticket. These morons just don’t get it.
Cocksucker.
Agreed.
Just look at that piehole.
Turdbreath needs some fakin lessons. Maybe he can get a scholarship to the course taught by Forging Frank Visconi the phony pony.
That should read “Forging Frank Visconi the Original Phony Pony”
The only real Holloway was Sterling the actor who served in the US Army, and had a wonderful career in the movies.
I can imagine the G forces in a falling helicopter would prevent anyone from entering the cockpit and regaining control. You could pretty much kiss your ass goodby I am pretty sure. Are there any vets with 9 purple hearts? This ass wipe is really streaching it. LBJ is about the last son of bitch I would want to pin anything on me. He was about as useless as this ass hole. He and Mac Namarra caused a lot of unnecessary casualties.
There was a SgtMaj in 9th Marines back in the 80s, SgtMaj “Ski”, who had a buttload of Purple Hearts. Maybe even 9. He said it wasn’t something to be proud of, just proved that he wasn’t too bright because he kept going back to places where people didn’t like him or his friends.
I believe there is a gent with 9, earned between WWII and Korea.
Several from Vietnam received 8.
“He and Mac Namarra caused a lot of unnecessary casualties”
Mac threw us all under the bus decades later. Thank him for DIA.
I’d thank him for his service but he didn’t seem to give a crap about mine.
He’s a lyin’ sack of smelly brown excrement.
Word.
This man is a TURD!
Boy, talk about go big or go home, this cocksucker is really going big! He ranks right up there on the bull shit meter! Let’s see some proof cocksucker, ya, the dog ate it or I threw it away, you betcha! You are really a lying cocksucker aren’t you big boy?
The DD-214 without all the phony finery shows a Sec. VII Ch. 5 discharge. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a Chapter 5 discharge, among other things, due to some sort of fuckery such as a medical disqualification, concealing an arrest record, personality disorder?
ATC, maybe in the new nowadays edition of AR635-200 the medical DQ, personality disorder, etc fall under Chapter 5, but the AR635-200 in effect for the time period he was discharged upon returning from Vietnam, those types of things fell under Chapter 13.
I see that his numerous health concerns have no adverse effect on his appetite.