Here is a good site for information about Stolen Valor Act issues. Web Site Aims to Uncover Fakers in Fatigues Reportstolenvalor.org. Those on active duty can be sent to court-martial for prosecution under the UCMJ.
Continue reading ›I’ve posted before about different cases where a service-member or civilian have “invented” their military career. Two recent examples are here and here. Now there’s another. Military.com reports that a retired senior chief petty officer appears to have fabricated his presence in USS COLE when the ship was attacked. In early November, retired Senior Chief…
Continue reading ›Sane or insane, Major Hasan’s mental state before and during his alleged offenses will be raised in his court-martial. Death penalty cases are different so sayeth they U.S. Supreme Court. Everything must be raised that could possibly have some impact on either the finding of guilt to a capital charge or in sentencing. The Supreme…
Continue reading ›Seattleweekly.com reports: Having now admitted to murder, Fort Lewis Spc. Ivette Davila today awaits word on whether she will face the death penalty for it. Davila, 23, an Army chemical specialist, is charged with killing Staff Sgt. Timothy Miller and Sgt. Randi Miller in their Parkland home March 2, 2008, soaking their bodies in muriatic…
Continue reading ›Stars & Stripes reports: A prosecutor has argued that a Marine Corps officer facing demotion failed to fully disclose and investigate the killing of two dozen Iraqi men, women and children by Marines under his command. But a defense attorney called the retired officer a highly qualified leader who took the fall amid political pressure…
Continue reading ›I just commented on two incidents involving suspicious actions by soldiers; one at Fort Campbell and one near Fort Leonard Wood. Army Times now reports: A box of hollow-point bullets and an anonymous note threatening an incident like the one at Fort Hood, Texas, were discovered Thursday at Fort Benning, Ga., sparking a criminal investigation…
Continue reading ›Army Times reports that Major Hasan has had or is about to have a pretrial confinement hearing at Fort Hood. A hearing is required within certain time periods under R.C.M. 305. R.C.M. 305 is a regulation in the manual for courts-martial that implements due process for someone detained for a crime. The military does not…
Continue reading ›As CAAFLog has pointed out, it appears that Major Hasan will be tried by media. Someone at the National Capital Consortium, Psychiatry Residency Program, Walter Reed Army Medical Center has released a letter to the Credentials Committee. No word on the WRAMC AR 15-6 into this unauthorized disclosure. One of the common “defenses” raised at…
Continue reading ›Military.com reports: Arizona sheriff’s deputies busted three men identifying themselves as Army Soldiers with almost 700 pounds of marijuana and $10,000 in cash during a two-day sweep for human smugglers.
Continue reading ›North County Times reports: Four members of a Camp Pendleton squad convicted of taking part in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in 2006 have been ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to be removed from the military. Secretary Ray Mabus also directed the Marine Corps to demonstrate why a lieutenant who…
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