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[Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>]

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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