According to Pentagon figures, since October 2001, more than 50,000 soldiers from all branches of the military have gone AWOL.
So reports Truth.
In response to President Barack Obama’s announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy.
The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals released today its en banc decision in United States v. Medina, No. 200900053, __ M.J. __ (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. Dec. 17, 2009). The main portion of the opinion focuses on Art. 120. The majority finds Art. 120 facially constitutional, citing United States v. Crotchett, __ M.J. ___, No. NMCCA 200800770 (N-M. Ct. Crim. App. May 12, 2009) (en banc), the court’s prior decision on Art. 120.
Before we place too much faith in police sponsored and monitored laboratories, here is a word of caution.
The New York State Police’s supervision of a crime laboratory was so poor that it overlooked evidence of pervasively shoddy forensics work, allowing an analyst to go undetected for 15 years as he falsified test results and compromised nearly one-third of his 322 cases, an investigation by the state’s inspector general has found.
A young Coast Guard petty officer faced the military courtroom with tears in her eyes Wednesday and told the two teams of lawyers the intimate, personal details of her sex life with her former lover, who was sitting across the room at the defense table.
The woman, who is the second lover to have taken the stand so far in the proceeding, told the court the captain had been her best friend up until the abrupt ending to the affair.
Anchorage Daily News reports.
North Carolina Judges James Wynn of Raleigh (JAGC, USNR) and Albert Diaz of Charlotte (former Marine JA), on their path to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, breezed through a brief confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, facing just a handful of questions from three senators.
News Observer reports.
Rumor has it that there are now 12 trial counsel assigned to the prosecution of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, at least one of whom has military death penalty litigation experience.
The defense remains at three with Mr. Galligan and two military defense counsel, none of whom have death penalty experience under the UCMJ.
The Army psychiatrist charged with fatally shooting 13 people at Fort Hood last month has been moved from a hospital intensive care unit to a private room, his attorney said Wednesday. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan remains under guard at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and is rehabilitating from wounds that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
The wrongful use of prescription medications is an offense under Article 112a, UCMJ.
About one in four soldiers admit to abusing prescription drugs, most of them pain relievers, in a one-year period, according to a Pentagon health survey released Wednesday.
The study, which surveyed more than 28,500 U.S. troops last year, showed that about 20 percent of Marines had also abused prescription drugs, mostly painkillers, in that same period.
An Army captain from Evergreen, accused of ordering Iraqi officers to kill two Iraqi civilians, will find out in the next few weeks if his case will go before a court martial.
The United States Military "preferred" one count of reckless endangerment and two counts of premeditated murder against Capt. Carl Bjork on Nov. 3.
Reports 9NEWS.com. An Article 32, UCMJ, investigation has yet to be ordered, so no court-martial for a while.
A Palm Springs man who surprised former classmates at his high school reunion in Martinez when he showed up in a Marine Corps uniform has pleaded guilty to wearing military medals that he never earned.
He will face as much as a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine when he is sentenced March 1. He remains free on $10,000 bond.
The SFGate reports.
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