Seven U.S. soldiers, including three men, have already been punished under six-week-old rules making pregnancy a violation of military law in northern Iraq.
Stars & Stripes reports.
The four soldiers who became pregnant were given letters of reprimand that will not remain a part of the permanent military file, Cucolo said, as were two of the male soldiers.
With a core part of my business relating to recruiter misconduct issues within the services, I found this item interesting.
Inland rape, other cases spur new ethics training for Marine recruiters.
About 20 military court-martial trials involving recruiters are under way at any given time, Richardson said. He said statistics show about 3 percent of recruiters are dismissed or face criminal charges for misconduct. He estimated that another 4 or 5 percent probably don’t get caught.
A former Navy master chief petty officer was sentenced Dec. 11 to four years in prison for stealing nearly $40 million in fuel from the U.S. Army in Iraq, according to the Department of Justice.
Stars & Stripes reports. One suspects he might of received a higher sentence if prosecuted at court-martial under the UCMJ, as a retiree recall.
A wide-ranging Department of Defense survey revealed the rate of servicemembers attempting suicide has doubled in recent years, coinciding with an increase in those reporting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and those abusing prescription drugs.
The Article 32, UCMJ, hearing for a Coast Guard O-6 accused of fraternization, adultery, and other offenses with enlisted and junior officer personnel is finished. An IO report is pending and then a CA decision. If the information reported as to the general nature of the case is true then it looks like the O-6 is on his way to trial or an OTHIL if he’s lucky.
Coast Guard Report is the blog questioning an absence of leadership related to disciplinary matters within the USCG.
The nominee for the Pentagon’s top public affairs job promised Thursday he will review Defense Department policies to ensure that journalists are not being denied embeds with combat troops based on the tenor of their reporting, a practice exposed by Stars and Stripes last summer.
Reports Stars & Stripes
According to Pentagon figures, since October 2001, more than 50,000 soldiers from all branches of the military have gone AWOL.
So reports Truth.
In response to President Barack Obama’s announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy.
North Carolina Judges James Wynn of Raleigh (JAGC, USNR) and Albert Diaz of Charlotte (former Marine JA), on their path to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, breezed through a brief confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, facing just a handful of questions from three senators.
News Observer reports.
The wrongful use of prescription medications is an offense under Article 112a, UCMJ.
About one in four soldiers admit to abusing prescription drugs, most of them pain relievers, in a one-year period, according to a Pentagon health survey released Wednesday.
The study, which surveyed more than 28,500 U.S. troops last year, showed that about 20 percent of Marines had also abused prescription drugs, mostly painkillers, in that same period.
An airman from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., allegedly shot and killed another airman Friday while the two were playing a game with a handgun.
Marine Times reports.
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