[Homestead] Clemency sought for Ohio Guardsmen
Rob
becidawa at hctc.com
Fri Dec 24 18:05:16 EST 2004
When I first heard of this I thought that they had really pissed someone
off up the chain & the word came down to 'get' them.
To get a dishonorable discharge as a the National Guardsmen should take
some work, keeping your trucks running is a poor reason although it looked
like it was enough. It sounds like someone got even...
Rob
becidawa at hctc.com
At 12/22/2004 11:13 PM, you wrote:
>boy is this logical .. your equipment needs parts and there are abandoned
> American parts availiable ..but if you use them then you get court
>marshalled ..
> humm better to leave it for enemy combatants to use them .. ria
>
> Clemency sought for Ohio Guardsmen
> Wednesday, December 22 WASHINGTON, Dec 21, 2004 (United Press International
>via COMTEX) -- Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is calling for clemency for six
>Ohio National Guard troops court-martialed for taking vehicles and parts for
>their unit in Iraq. Durbin, who becomes assistant Democratic Senate leader
>in January, sent a letter to the White House Tuesday calling on President
>Bush to pardon the reservists, including two decorated officers. The members
>of the 656th Transportation Company based in Springfield, Ohio, were
>court-martialed for taking two tractors and two trailers left in Kuwait by
>other U.S. military units that had moved into Iraq and stripping an
>abandoned 5-ton truck for parts to repair their vehicles. They pleaded
>guilty and were fined, dishonorably discharged and stripped of military
>benefits. Durbin said while scavenging unused vehicles technically violated
>military law and showed poor judgment "the punishment is completely out of
>step with the violation." Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, has asked the U.S. Army
>to grant clemency to a major sentenced to six months in prison and a chief
>warrant officer court-martialed in May. Copyright 2004 by United Press
>International.
>
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