Is the "Frank Dux" mentioned in the VVAW/Kerry 'Stolen Valor' fraud the "Bloodsport" movie Dux?

3-8-04

[Dan from Michigan]

I've seen a list posted on here a few times that looks like this

Kerry relied upon phonies and wannabes for support. His prominence has allowed current phonies and wannabes to continue the unsubstantiated allegations made all those years ago and which Kerry appears to condone even today.
For example:

Elton Mazione, claiming Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) credentials, Kerry's original organization, along with his friends, John Laboon, Eddie Swetz, and Kenneth Van Lesser. They claimed to kill children and remove body parts as part of the notorious Phoenix program. They were neither in Phoenix nor in Vietnam.

Kerry's VVAW leader friend from 1971, Al Hubbard, lied about being an officer, Vietnam Veteran, and sustaining war injuries. Michael Harbert, another VVAW crony of Kerry, lied about his Vietnam service.

Frank Dux: He charged many recognizable Vietnam vets with using techniques bordering on war crimes. Dux was a fraud and non Vietnam Veteran.

Yoshia K. Chee claimed we in Vietnam routinely resorted to the most hideous forms of torture, threw people out of helicopters, and decapitated prisoners. He was a phony.

Mike Beamon, an alleged SEAL and Phoenix assassin, was never in the military.

The Senator's own VVAW and similar groups relied upon people like: K. Barton Osborn, a Vietnam veteran and testifier of atrocities to Congress. He told of prisoners being thrown out of helicopters, a woman starved to death, a prisoner being killed by a six inch dowel pushed through his ear. Osborn was not in Phoenix, refused to name names, and provided no documentation.

Lieutenants Francis Reitemeyer and Michael J. Cohn. Both sought conscientious objector status because of Phoenix. Reitemeyer testified to being assigned to Phoenix as an adviser and maintained a kill quota of fifty bodies a month. They became famous as My Lai hit the news. Neither served in Vietnam, in Phoenix, or had any first hand information. Reitemeyer later denied receiving any assassination training.

[Dan from Michigan]

Bloodsport is a fairly well known action movie that came out around 1988. It was one of Jean Claude Van Damme's first movies. It was supposedly based on a true story.

The movie is about Dux being the first American to win win the Kumite, a martial arts full contact underground competition.

In the movie Dux goes AWOL from the military to compete? Same guy?

[cwb]

I don't know if this is the same Frank Dux, but according to Google, it appears that Dux and Kerry have a lot in common: They both like to exaggerate their Vietnam experience. There are several threads on Dux being a fraud...and I found this post interesting:

"Have you ever heard of guy named Frank Dux?

This is the man who was the subject of the movie "Bloodsport" starring Jean Claude Van Damme, and the book The Secret Man. Well, Frank Dux is a phony. A bullshitter. A con man who conned a publisher and a movie maker.

I'm reading Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett. Stolen Valor is a book about phonies who claim to be combat veterans of the Vietnam War. Burkett, who uses the Freedom of Information Act, has unmasked hundreds of phoney Vietnam "veterans" and "war heroes." Among them is Frank Dux, the purported military hero/
Ninja fighter/secret agent.

Frank Dux served in the Marine Reserve in the 1970s--AFTER Vietnam. He was given a psychiatric evaluation for grandiose delusions. He did NOT hold the Navy Cross, Silver Star,
DSC, Bronze Star, Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Purple Heart, and--get this--a "secret" Medal of Honor. He was no master Ninja fighter, either.

If you see the book The Secret Man, it's bullshit. "Bloodsport" is also fiction."

Orville H. Larson