Associated Press, as reported in the Post & Courier, Friday, August 14, 2009
COLUMBIA — Gov. Mark Sanford is going to Florida this weekend, but not on vacation. He’s slated to don his Air Force uniform for a stint in the Air Force Reserves.
A 26-year Camp Lejeune Marine master gunnery sergeant pleaded guilty during court-martial proceedings to taking money from three contractors while deployed to Iraq in 2005, according to Marine officials.
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Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences Iraqi deaths
TOM ROEDER, THE GAZETTE
An Air Force Academy major on trial this week for rape has pleaded guilty to several related crimes.
Maj. Barry N. Nixon is disputing the rape claim brought by a girl over an assault she says occurred five years ago in Germany. A court-martial panel was hearing arguments in that case earlier today.
Nixon has pleaded guilty to indecent acts upon a child and two assault counts — crimes that could bring a maximum of 14 years in prison and discharge from the Air Force.
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, Thursday, September 3, 2009
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September 1, 2009 By REID J. EPSTEIN,
A Suffolk police officer and Iraq War veteran who criticized Commissioner Richard Dormer at a public meeting has been docked five days pay for his comments.
Officer Mike Simonelli, 37, who said he is set to deploy to Afghanistan with his Army Reserve unit, compared Dormer – during testimony before the Legislature’s Public Safety Committee – to a turncoat military commander who had defected to the Iraqi side.
September 01, 2009 4:05 PM, by: Tom Reoder, THE GAZETTE
Two Air Force Academy majors are wrapped up in separate sex crime cases. One was arrested Monday on child pornography charges.
Another will hear opening arguments tomorrow in a court martial where he’s charged with a string of sexual assaults.
CAAF issued its opinion in United States v. Ashby today affirming the decision of NMCCA.
Here was a story from KansasCity.com on 28 August 2009:
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. | A soldier at Fort Leonard Wood is set to go on trial on charges of killing another soldier’s wife.
Spc. Jermaine Johnson was originally to face a court martial trial in May, but the trial date was changed a couple times. The proceeding is scheduled to start today at the mid-Missouri Army base.
See what you think? I’ve posted the article about LtCol Chessani not being prosecuted, but facing a BOI. One of the papers reported:
Instead, the Marine Corps will convene a Board of Inquiry to hear testimony and recommend whether Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani should be demoted to major for purposes of retirement.
Even if such a recommendation is made and then accepted by the Secretary of the Navy, Chessani’s retirement pay would still be based on being a lieutenant colonel.
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