Posted on 02/09/2015 3:06:33 PM PST by Timber Rattler
A Green Beret officer who was stripped of a prestigious valor award and dropped from the Special Forces fell out of favor with Army officials after the CIA shared information it gathered about him while he was going through screening for a potential job, according to officials familiar with the case.
Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn was investigated by the Army Criminal Investigation Command for an undisclosed violation of the U.S. military’s rules of engagement in 2010 that resulted in the death of a known enemy fighter and bombmaker in Helmand province, Afghanistan, according to the officials. The Army closed a lengthy investigation last summer without charging Golsteyn with any crime, but Army Secretary John McHugh revoked a Silver Star that Golsteyn had been awarded for heroism on Feb. 20, 2010, during the iconic Battle of Marja.
The Army also took away Golsteyn’s Special Forces tab, a qualification that goes to any soldier who completes Special Forces training, and reassigned him to the conventional Army as an infantry officer, several officials said. He is in the process of determining his future with the Army, said his lawyer, Phil Stackhouse.
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For Pete's sake, get the danged lawyers off the danged battlefield!!!!!!!
The Obama maladministration is pure evil.
Just get the Kenyan out of the white hut.
Isn't that what he's supposed to be doing?!
They’ll probably give it to someone more deserving, like Bo Bergdahl...
I have known JAGs who have been in the sh!t. Unfortunately, I’ve also met a few who were REMFs.
The former rock, including a Freeper whom I have not seen post for a while (am starting to worry about him). The latter? I would not walk across the street to pour a bottle of water on them if they were on fire.
Sounds like this guy is dealing with the latter. /SPIT (on them, not him)
Rules of engagement that benefit the enemy are the criminal act here.
The Agency requires TOTAL honesty, and then with Army connivance they penalized him for it —GREAT lesson about working with Da Gummint.
“Neither the Army nor Stackhouse have been willing to elaborate on the allegations he faced, and Golsteyn declined to be interviewed through his lawyer. But three sources with knowledge of the investigation told The Washington Post that the Army began probing Golsteyn’s actions after he interviewed for a job with the CIA. Todd Ebitz, a spokesman for the agency, declined to comment.”
Until we know more, any comments are meaningless.
Trusted the CIA? Bright. He probably thinks they are designed to protect the nation. He would have been better to discuss his social connections and how he supports the Ivy League and the uniparty.
If the shyster lawyers and judges continue joining the buffoons on Capitol Hill in telling the military how to fight a war, I can see “Rock, Paper, Scissors” as our most potent weapon in the future.
“The Agency requires TOTAL honesty”
And only a naïve person gives it to them.
“Until we know more, any comments are meaningless.”
Not really. An Army SF Officer was unashamed enough of what he did to think it was quite rational to undergo a background check and a polygraph, and seek a higher job.
He trusted his government enough that he thought his actions made him a fit, they stabbed him in the back. We know that much.
If Ron Spiers, who commanded Easy Company of the Band of Brothers in latter part of WWII, was subject to what we inflict on today's soldiers, he probably would have ended up there too.
You misspelled "Da Gruberment"...
Better yet, leave them there.
In gunny sacks.
Apparently he didn't read the perp his miranda rights and give him a phone call, but the worst thing is he didn't say mother may I before he killed him. It's almost as bad as Vietnam when the soldiers were pretty much only allowed to fight back once they were dead.
Nice try, you REMFs. They can "take it away" till the end of time. He still earned it.
And I'd pay money to watch somebody beat the teeth out of their lying faces.
Seventy years ago the invasion of Iwo Jima was about to kick off.
We had to kill almost all of the 22,000 Japanese on the island.
And it cost us 26,000 casualties, including 6800 dead.
One third of all the Marines killed in WWII died on Iwo.
I wonder how this generation of DC pantywaists would deal with that.
I always enjoy reading your posts on World war history you know your stuff.
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