Posted on 09/19/2015 8:27:31 AM PDT by darkwing104
FOXNEWS was the first to publicly report the Army’s decision to kick out 11-year Green Beret Sgt First Class (SFC) Charles Martland. On September 11, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif a member of the House Armed Services Committee, blasted Army leadership for issuing an alleged “gag order” forbidding them talking about the discharge of SFC Martland. The congressman said “more troubling” is that he’s learned “Army leadership has pushed a ‘gag order’ … prohibiting both the Chain of Command and soldiers from speaking to anyone regarding the case.” If true such a gag order would be a gross violation of 10 U.S. Code § 1034 – Protected communications; prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions.
(1) No person may restrict a member of the armed forces communicating with a Member of Congress or an Inspector General.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a communication that is unlawful..
Senior Leadership probably wishes this would all just go away and doubtless it would were it not for the determination of Rep Hunter. Issuing a “gag order” is a crime in itself having severe consequences on the command and any legal advisors. Unlike most members of Congress, Rep. Hunter is a vet.
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Disgraceful.
Highly decorated soldier:
“The Sergeant is being tossed for standing up to an Afghan pedophile in a position of authority. This typically sub-human follower of Muhammed raped a 15 year old Afghan boy and then viciously beat the boy’s mother after she complained of the act to the US Army at a Special Forces outpost. Martland reacted to the pedophile’s decision to laugh at the plight of Mother and Son by shoving him to the ground. (1) For his sense of Honor, SFC Martland is being discharged because it created an embarrassing international incident that the Obama Regime didn’t want to deal with.”
Trump should get Sgt. Martland to campaign with him. Let’s have more leftists’ heads explode.
Oh. I thought this article was about Obama’s gay appointee...
The sergeant showed more restraint than I would have been able to muster.
If this is a violation of the law, then Duncan hunter should prove he’s not just another blowhard politician and have charges filed against whoever issued the gag order.
Active Duty ping.
It’s likely that Senior Leadership will perform a rope-a-dope till SFC Martland has been discharged.<> It’s also a safe bet the alleged Gag order came from the White House and is being enforced by American Commissars with law degrees.
SFC Martland should be promoted... Trump will straighten this out when he's President.
With a flaming homo nominated for Sec Army (and will be approved because of the weak and cowardly Mitch), this brave warrior would likely be forced to undergo forced “conversion therapy”. . .complete with surgery.
pedophiles are a protected class.
Not just protected, I’d say celebrated by this administration and his evil-doers.
Sadly, Representative Hunter has no authority to file charges against anyone. He is not a prosecutor, or a member of the Justice Department. All he can do is shine some light into the dark corners to try to make the cockroaches run for cover.
Bump!
Sounds like something that would happen in the administration of a questionably foreign communist where he would try to top all his other commissar appointments by putting a queer in charge of the army.
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This is utterly disgusting.
We have a lot of undoing to do, come 2016-17.
What an appalling thing to say.
A “gag” order has new meaning considering who and what the new Secretary of the Army is.
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