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04-09-2003, 07:35 AM
Fake Soldier Hoaxes College (http://thedailystar.com/news/stories/2003/04/09/hoax.html)
Read the full story -- this college is just 10 miles away from us. they really got sucked in..as did the newspaper .Yes.. you can trust the media..NOT This goon actually had an assault rifle in his dorm room --and was a Resident Assistant!! Pls read the entire story --and feel free to email the U and newspaper about this... its THEIR fault
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Student's soldier story turns out to be a hoax
By Mark Boshnack
Tri-Towns Bureau
ONEONTA — A 27-year-old Hartwick College sophomore featured in a front-page story in Tuesday's Daily Star admitted to college officials Tuesday he perpetrated a hoax on Hartwick and the newspaper.
Rob Williams had claimed to be an inactive Army Reservist who spent his spring break training Iraq-bound military police at Fort Drum.
Williams told his false story last week to Robert A. Clark, Hartwick's executive director of communications, who then contacted The Daily Star about doing a feature story.
The public affairs officer at Fort Drum, Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, described Williams' story as "gibberish." He said Williams, a co-captain of the Hartwick football team, received an administrative discharge from the Army Military Police in April 2001.
Hilferty said an administrative discharge is given to a soldier for a general pattern of misconduct.
An Army official said that could include such actions as failure to obey an order or conduct unbecoming a soldier, but he would not say if any of those charges applied in Williams' case.
Hilferty said Williams was not telling the truth about being a member of the MP special-response team. Hilferty said Williams served in the army police stationed at Fort Drum, but he said he did not know whether Williams had served in Kosovo, as Williams said in the story, or what his years of service were.
About Williams' claim that he was called back to Fort Drum to train MPs, Hilferty said, "We don't call civilians to train us in urban warfare."
read more:
Fake Soldier Hoaxes College (http://thedailystar.com/news/stories/2003/04/09/hoax.html)
Read the full story -- this college is just 10 miles away from us. they really got sucked in..as did the newspaper .Yes.. you can trust the media..NOT This goon actually had an assault rifle in his dorm room --and was a Resident Assistant!! Pls read the entire story --and feel free to email the U and newspaper about this... its THEIR fault
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Student's soldier story turns out to be a hoax
By Mark Boshnack
Tri-Towns Bureau
ONEONTA — A 27-year-old Hartwick College sophomore featured in a front-page story in Tuesday's Daily Star admitted to college officials Tuesday he perpetrated a hoax on Hartwick and the newspaper.
Rob Williams had claimed to be an inactive Army Reservist who spent his spring break training Iraq-bound military police at Fort Drum.
Williams told his false story last week to Robert A. Clark, Hartwick's executive director of communications, who then contacted The Daily Star about doing a feature story.
The public affairs officer at Fort Drum, Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, described Williams' story as "gibberish." He said Williams, a co-captain of the Hartwick football team, received an administrative discharge from the Army Military Police in April 2001.
Hilferty said an administrative discharge is given to a soldier for a general pattern of misconduct.
An Army official said that could include such actions as failure to obey an order or conduct unbecoming a soldier, but he would not say if any of those charges applied in Williams' case.
Hilferty said Williams was not telling the truth about being a member of the MP special-response team. Hilferty said Williams served in the army police stationed at Fort Drum, but he said he did not know whether Williams had served in Kosovo, as Williams said in the story, or what his years of service were.
About Williams' claim that he was called back to Fort Drum to train MPs, Hilferty said, "We don't call civilians to train us in urban warfare."
read more:
Fake Soldier Hoaxes College (http://thedailystar.com/news/stories/2003/04/09/hoax.html)