Posted on 04/08/2015 3:25:56 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A former Green Beret officer who was stripped of one of the military’s top awards for heroism by the Army secretary will soon face a panel of officers that can throw him out of the service, according to the officer’s lawyer and Army officials.
Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn will face an administrative hearing known as a board of inquiry the week of May 18, according to a memorandum sent March 26 by the panel’s top officer, Col. Stuart Goldsmith. It is believed the board will review evidence against Golsteyn in the 2010 death of a Taliban bomb maker that the Army Criminal Investigation Command already has reviewed. That probe closed last year without Golsteyn being charged with any crime, according to officials familiar with the case.
Golsteyn’s lawyer, Phil Stackhouse, confirmed the tentative hearing date and said that his client is concerned about being separated from the Army under other-than-honorable circumstances because it would eliminate medical benefits that most veterans receive. An Army medical board is currently evaluating a medical retirement for Goldsteyn based on an operation he had on his heart while serving, spinal damage, a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, Stackhouse said.
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There’s nowhere near enough info about this case to make a judgment either way.
From what I understand, that's true of the Air Force and the Navy, but certainly not in the Army, I can tell you that.
I’m trying to figure the grins on their faces. One also has a kinda limp wrist holding his sword - -
‘Stay out of the military.’
Sadly, I have said this to young relatives, also saying “while O’Bambam is in office, anyway.”
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