Documents filed today in court in the case of a Marine facing discharge for making statements critical of President Obama reveal multiple procedural violations, including ignoring testimony from a former staff judge advocate for the commandant of the Marines, a retired brigadier general, stating there was no basis for discharging Stein.
Brig. Gen. David Brahms said in a written statement, “I do not believe that … the behavior in question violates the cited UCMJ provision.”
The statement was among filings presented to Judge Marilyn Huff with the U.S. District Court in California asking her to stop the Marine Corps from fast-tracking a discharge of Sgt. Gary Stein.
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I thought that freedom of speech was an amendment of the Constitution?
ReplyDeleteDana, service members sacrifice certain "rights and freedoms" while in service, in order to maintain "good order and discipline". This should be interesting to see how this one turns out. Another old and outdated order/regulation, that hasnt kept up with the verbage of modern day. Going to be left to some interpretation on the part of the Courts and Department of Defense.
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