A U.S. Army staff sergeant stationed at Fort Eustis pleaded guilty Tuesday to the April 6 robbery of the Grafton branch of the Langley Federal Credit Union on George Washington Memorial Highway (Route 17).

York-Poquoson Circuit Court judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. accepted the guilty plea from 38-year-old Dorman Ronald Shaw during a Tuesday morning hearing. Shaw’s plea covers the robbery charge, however it does not address the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony charge that remains against him. A two-day jury trial is scheduled to cover that charge Nov. 8 and 9.

Former Marine Gets Probation In Brutal Cabbie Attack

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A former Camp Lejeune Marine, who was caught on camera last year brutally beating a cab driver, has pleaded guilty.

Adam Kinosh received five years probation after his guilty plea to assault inflicting serious injury. Kinosh will have to pay the victim $8654 in lost wages, plus his medical and counseling fees.

The former Marine will also have to complete PTSD counseling, be under electronic house arrest for one year, consume no alcohol during probation and not communicate with the victim.

Mefloquine: The Military’s Suicide Pill

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Mefloquine: The Military’s Suicide Pill

In late July, 2013, the FDA issued a powerful “black box” safety warning for a drug which has been taken by hundreds of thousands of troops to prevent malaria. The drug is called mefloquine, and it was previously sold in the U.S. by F. Hoffman-La Roche under the trade name Lariam. Since being developed by the U.S. military over four decades ago, mefloquine has been widely used by troops on deployments in Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan.

We now recognize, decades too late, that mefloquine is neurotoxic and can cause lasting injury to the brainstem and emotional centers in the limbic system. As a result of its toxic effects, the drug is quickly becoming the “Agent Orange” of this generation, linked to a growing list of lasting neurological and psychiatric problems including suicide.

The public had its first glimpse of the mefloquine suicide problem over a decade ago in 2002, when a cluster of murder-suicides occurred among Ft. Bragg soldiers returning home from deployment. All three soldiers had been taking mefloquine, yet an official Army investigation later concluded mefloquine was “unlikely to be the cause of this clustering.”

Alaska National Guard Updates Military Justice Code (2016)

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Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program

Foreign military officers plead not guilty in Missouri attempted child abduction case

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Foreign military officers plead not guilty in Missouri attempted child abduction case

ST. LOUIS • Two Middle East military officers in Missouri for training at Fort Leonard Wood pleaded not guilty this week to charges in an attempted child abduction case, officials said.

“Looks like they are going to be with us for a while,” Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said Friday.

Mohammed Mahmoud Omar Mefleh, 34, of Jordan, and Antoine Chlela, 31, of Lebanon, are held in the county jail with bail set at $200,000 for each. They are charged with enticement of a child and harassment.

The case has put communities outside the sprawling military base on alert.

Guard recruiter held in superiors’ shooting

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Guard recruiter held in superiors’ shooting

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE — A National Guardsman was being held Friday and awaiting charges in the shooting of two of his superiors at an armory north of Memphis, where he was subdued by fellow soldiers and arrested by local police.

The sergeant first class, whose name was not released, had been disciplined before he opened fire with a handgun Thursday at the armory in Millington, Tennessee, according to a law enforcement official who had been briefed on the case. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Family violence in the military: Batterers or soldiers with PTSD?

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Family violence in the military: Batterers or soldiers with PTSD?

When men end up in Anne Potts Jackson’s office, the signs often paint them as domestic abusers: controlling behavior, angry outbursts that turn violent.

As an assistant district attorney in Bell County, home of Fort Hood, Jackson tries to determine what’s behind all that. Are these men true batterers, or are they soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder?

“Anger is the predominant emotion of the combat experience. It is the emotion that kept him alive, kept her alive, when he was in Afghanistan or Iraq,” Jackson said. “But it is the thing — the emotion — that will get him arrested at home.” As an Air Force wife herself, Jackson understands the tensions that exist inside military households.

A Stranger in My Home Premiered ‘Buried Secrets’ on ID: Army Veteran Allan Kowalski Found Buried in Shallow Grave on Texas Property (October 27, 2013)

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Al Kowalski is new to Hill Country, Texas. He plans to spend his early retirement hunting and fixing his vintage vehicles. Al welcomes meth-addicted mechanic Charlie Tidwell into his home to help with the cars, but Charlie has a different plan. -Buried Secrets, A Stranger in My Home (S1,E3)

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Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs

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Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs

Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they’re not the boys who went away.

On New Year’s Day, the New York Times welcomed the advent of 2009 by reporting that, since returning from Iraq, nine members of the Fort Carson, Colorado, Fourth Brigade Combat team had been charged with homicide. Five of the murders they were responsible for took place in 2008 when, in addition, “charges of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault” at the base rose sharply. Some of the murder victims were chosen at random; four were fellow soldiers — all men. Three were wives or girlfriends.

This shouldn’t be a surprise. Men sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for two, three, or four tours of duty return to wives who find them “changed” and children they barely know. Tens of thousands return to inadequate, underfunded veterans’ services with appalling physical injuries, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suck-it-up sergeants who hold to the belief that no good soldier seeks help. That, by the way, is a mighty convenient belief for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which have been notoriously slow to offer much of that help.

When Strains on Military Families Turn Deadly

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When Strains on Military Families Turn Deadly

A few months after Sgt. William Edwards and his wife, Sgt. Erin Edwards, returned to a Texas Army base from separate missions in Iraq, he assaulted her mercilessly. He struck her, choked her, dragged her over a fence and slammed her into the sidewalk.

As far as Erin Edwards was concerned, that would be the last time he beat her.

Unlike many military wives, she knew how to work the system to protect herself. She was an insider, even more so than her husband, since she served as an aide to a brigadier general at Fort Hood.

With the general’s help, she quickly arranged for a future transfer to a base in New York. She pressed charges against her husband and secured an order of protection. She sent her two children to stay with her mother. And she received assurance from her husband’s commanders that he would be barred from leaving the base unless accompanied by an officer.

Yet on the morning of July 22, 2004, William Edwards easily slipped off base, skipping his anger-management class, and drove to his wife’s house in the Texas town of Killeen. He waited for her to step outside and then, after a struggle, shot her point-blank in the head before turning the gun on himself.

MILITARY JUSTICE FOR ALL

Category: Felony Crime

Fort Eustis Staff Sergeant Pleads Guilty to Robbing York County Credit Union

Former Marine Gets Probation In Brutal Cabbie Attack

Mefloquine: The Military’s Suicide Pill

Alaska National Guard Updates Military Justice Code (2016)

Foreign military officers plead not guilty in Missouri attempted child abduction case

Guard recruiter held in superiors’ shooting

Family violence in the military: Batterers or soldiers with PTSD?

A Stranger in My Home Premiered ‘Buried Secrets’ on ID: Army Veteran Allan Kowalski Found Buried in Shallow Grave on Texas Property (October 27, 2013)

Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs

When Strains on Military Families Turn Deadly

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