A Comprehensive List Of Obama’s Misbehaving Senior Military Officers

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A Comprehensive List Of Obama’s Misbehaving Senior Military Officers

Senior military leaders are supposed to behave in a manner that is morally above  reproach. That, unfortunately, is not always the case. -Business Insider (2013)

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Air Force Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski allegedly sexually assaulted a woman.

Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus had an affair.

Army Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts got into a fight with his mistress.

Army Lt. Gen. David Holmes Huntoon Jr. abused his staff.

Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal trash talked Obama.

Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright allegedly had an affair.

Army Gen. “Kip” Ward misused thousands in government funds.

Marine Col. Daren Margolin accidentally shot a gun in his office.

Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina cheated at poker.

Army Maj. Gen. Ralph Baker was fired over sex and alcohol.

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Gregg A. Sturdevant failed to secure his base from a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.

Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Carey misbehaved on an assignment.

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Charles M.M. Gurganus neglected to implement security  procedures that would have stopped a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.

Navy Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette made poor leadership decisions.

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We Bleed Too: Tony Bush, PTSD and the Discharge Status of Vietnam Veterans

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Vietnam Veterans of AmericaWe Bleed Too: Tony Bush, PTSD and the Discharge Status of Vietnam Veterans

The Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of six recognized Lakota reservations, has, as a nation, been one of the more historically powerful avatars of the Native American experience in the United States, both in terms of the long-term struggle for cultural survival, and because of a warrior tradition that remains deeply ingrained in the tribe’s culture.

Despite the U.S. government having traditionally subjugated, marginalized, and even committed genocide against the Lakota, members of the Oglala nation have served in every branch of the service both before and since the Snyder Act (1924) and the Nationality Act of 1940 made Native Americans legal U.S. Citizens.

However, members of the Lakota who have served in the U.S. armed forces have been veterans of not just one kind of conflict, but two.

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Vietnam vet wins discharge upgrade in PTSD lawsuit

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Vietnam VeteranVietnam vet wins discharge upgrade in PTSD lawsuit

NEW HAVEN, CONN. — A Vietnam veteran who received the Bronze Star and later was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder will have his discharge status upgraded under a settlement with the U.S. Army, his representatives announced Monday.

John Shepherd Jr., a 66-year-old New Haven resident, said the Army agreed to resolve his lawsuit by upgrading his original other-than-honorable discharge to an honorable discharge. The change will allow Shepherd to receive disability benefits he had been denied, according to Yale Law School students who represented him.

Shepherd has said he battled alcoholism and struggled to stay employed for 40 years, but was not diagnosed with PTSD until 2004.

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Fort Sill soldier convicted of sexual misconduct with child

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US Army SealFort Sill soldier convicted of sexual misconduct with child

LAWTON — A military judge has found a Fort Sill soldier guilty of sexual offenses against a child, the fifth soldier from the Army post to be convicted of sexual misconduct with a child since July 2012. Sgt. Kristoffer R. Lenning was sentenced to 43 years confinement, reduction to the lowest rank and a dishonorable discharge.

The fort’s leaders have previously declined to comment on the number of such cases. However, in an emailed response Monday, a Fort Sill spokesman said “one assault is too many.”

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Kirsten Gillibrand faces 60-vote bar on sex-assault reform

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Kirsten Gillibrand faces 60-vote bar on sex-assault reform

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s bid to overhaul the military’s sexual assault policies took a big hit Monday after two key opponents said she’s going to need  60 votes for a win.

Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told POLITICO that  Gillibrand’s amendment to remove the chain of command from prosecuting major  crimes like sexual assault is too controversial to avoid a filibuster instead of  a 51-vote simple majority.

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Sexual assaults not scaring off female recruits (2013)

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Sexual assaults not scaring off female recruits

Rep. Jackie Speier has been telling every academy recruit she meets and their  parents the same thing for years — that sexual assault in the military is rampant.  But not a single woman she’s talked to has ever changed her mind about joining.

“This is a $400,000 scholarship,” said Speier (D-Calif.) of the academy  nominees. “On the one hand, they are weighing the savings to the family pocketbook, the extraordinary education and opportunities and then this  potential risk — and I think they are expecting us to protect their daughters.”

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Breaking the chain: Sen. Gillibrand’s mission to change military policy on sexual assault

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RetaliationBreaking the chain: Sen. Gillibrand’s mission to change military policy on sexual assault

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is on a mission to change how the military prosecutes sexual assaults. She points to one statistic to explain why: 60 percent of those who reported sexual assaults last year were retaliated against by their superiors. “The victims tell us over and over again that they don’t trust the chain of command,” Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, told “The Fine Print.”

Gillibrand is calling for removing sexual assault cases from the chain of command, so decisions on whether to try such cases would be made by military prosecutors, not commanders.

Watch video: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/breaking-the-chain–sen–gillibrand%E2%80%99s-mission-to-change-military-policy-on-sexual-assault-213205898.html?vp=1

Attorney: Glen Burnie shooting was self-defense

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USAF SealAttorney: Glen Burnie shooting was self-defense

A Glen Burnie man acted in self-defense when he shot and killed another man he suspected of having an affair with his wife, his attorney said Monday.

At a bail hearing for Matthew Pinkerton, 34, attorney Peter O’Neill said the victim, Kendall Green, broke into Pinkerton’s home on Arbor Drive just before 2 a.m. Sunday after being told repeatedly to leave. Green, also of Glen Burnie, acted aggressively and motioned toward his waistband as if he had a weapon, O’Neill said.

Pinkerton shot Green once in the chest from 10 to 15 feet away, but Green continued to advance toward him, his wife Jessica and two friends who were at the house, O’Neill said. That’s when Pinkerton shot him again. He died at the scene.

Read more: http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/attorney-glen-burnie-shooting-was-self-defense/article_36bb4d67-b713-5b22-b6c5-d9e2b1d1016d.html

Veterans Expelled From U.S. For Minor Crimes Fight Deportations

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ICEVeterans Expelled From U.S. For Minor Crimes Fight Deportations

Mark A. Reid of New Haven, 49, spent six years in the Army Reserve before his honorable discharge in 1990 and still speaks about being “willing to die for this country.” Now he sits in a Massachusetts jail, facing deportation to his native Jamaica because of four drug convictions including sale of narcotics and possession of heroin.  Last November, immigration officers moved Reid – who came to the U.S. at age 14 — to Immigration Custody from the Brooklyn, CT jail where he was serving time for what he described as “a $30 drug sale.’’

The two men are among what veterans’ advocates say is a growing number of noncitizen military veterans who are being deported for crimes for which they served time years earlier.

Read more: http://c-hit.org/2013/11/03/veterans-expelled-from-u-s-for-minor-crimes-fight-deportations/?shared_via_impaq_me=true

Plumas jury finds man guilty of murder in 20-year-old’s shooting death

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US Army SealPlumas jury finds man guilty of murder in 20-year-old’s shooting death

QUINCY — The day after a Plumas County jury found Gregory Chad Wallin-Reed guilty of murdering Rory McGuire, the victim’s mother said the world seems different, if ever so slightly. The jury of 10 women and two men needed less than three hours to find Wallin-Reed, 38, of Reno, guilty of first-degree murder in McGuire’s shooting death. They convicted him of seven additional felony counts that include firing at an occupied vehicle, five counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and possession of an illegal assault rifle.