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  • From: Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Clemency sought for Ohio Guardsmen
  • Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:05:16 -0800

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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