Pilot Online reports that:
For years, the top officer in the Virginia National Guard has had a paid position with a business run by one of his subordinate officers.
Newman promoted Bonanni to the assistant adjutant general’s post in 2008 while collecting a paycheck from his company.
Army Times reports that:
An Army captain from Colorado charged with killing two Iraqi civilians has been convicted of lesser charges in Iraq.
Military officials say Capt. Carl Bjork was found guilty of reckless endangerment and negligent homicide in a general court-martial on Tuesday. He was reprimanded and will lose a third of his salary for one year.
MG John L. Fugh, a former Army TJAG has died. Here is a link to the Washington Post obituary.
Maj. Gen. John L. Fugh, who served as the Army’s top uniformed lawyer in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War and later had a successful career in the private sector as China liaison to major corporations, died May 11 at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda after a heart attack. He was 75.
Gen. Fugh (pronounced "foo"), the first Chinese American general officer in the U.S. Army, was a Beijing native who left China with his family after the Communist takeover in 1949. He spent his 33-year military career in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, including a tour of duty in Vietnam as a judge advocate at the height of the war.
The Capital reports that:
Standout slotback Marcus Curry, whose off-field behavior drew as much attention as his on-field exploits, has been dismissed from the Naval Academy football team.
Curry was charged with an unauthorized absence for failing to be in his dormitory room in Bancroft Hall when required.
New York Post reports that:
If she can’t have justice for her slain soldier husband, she’d at least like a Purple Heart.
New York widow Barbara Allen is battling the National Guard for withholding the military honor from her husband, who was killed in 2005 while serving in Iraq.
KXXV.com reports:
A Fort Hood soldier accused of possession of child pornography has been sentenced.
A General Court-Martial found Sgt. Donald Keith Whitten guilty of wrongful possession of child pornography earlier this week.
Main Justice reports:
A high-profile appeal of an Army First Lieutenant convicted last year of killing an unarmed detainee in Iraq could turn in part on whether military prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence.
[The] case underscores how the government is being forced to explain, in the military courts as well as the civilian justice system, its compliance with Brady v. Maryland, the 1963 Supreme Court case that requires prosecutors to turn over exculpatory information to the defense.
Stars & Stripes reports.
Reversing an earlier decision, the Air Force said Monday it intends to discharge a lesbian Air Force officer who had remained in the military despite openly declaring her homosexuality.
An Air Force general earlier this year concluded that Lt. Robin R. Chaurasiya should not be discharged, saying she had declared her sexual orientation for the purpose of avoiding military service.
Here at truthout is a different perspective on the rapper case.
According to Jeff Paterson of Courage to Resist, an Oakland-based organization dedicated to supporting military objectors like Hall, he was not jailed for the song, but was instead jailed "in retaliation for his formal complaint of inadequate mental health services available to him at Fort Stewart. The Army used an angry song that Spc. Hall, a combat veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress, had produced criticizing the stop-loss policy as the pretext."
What put the 34-year-old New York City native in the brig were, according to Paterson, Hall’s persistent assertions of inadequate mental health care that culminated in a December 7 complaint to the Army Investigator General. Just five days after that, Hall was charged with violating "good order and discipline" at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and was shipped out of the country for a court martial in Kuwait.
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