No. He was court martial led for merely asking them not allowed to present a defense.
Not trying to be argumentative because I too question the location of Barack Obama’s birth, but it seems to me he was Courts Martialed for missing movement.
His defense referring to the circumstances related to Obama’s election don’t have any bearing on his deployment orders.
Therefore, any defense reference to Obama’s installment to the office of President is not relevant to the deployment and thus was not allowed.
I guess he was willing to fall on his sword over the issue but when they would not answer his question and if he wanted to maintain his pension he should have deployed and continued the requests for verification as he was assigned to new commands over the course of the deployment and remainder of his time in service while Barack Obama was still President. The question would become moot once either of their status changed.
I doubt if he had deployed that he would have been brought up on charges.
All the above is my opinion based on the very limited info we have here.
Thank you.
He was charged and convicted at court martial on three counts of disobeying orders (when ordered by his superior to report), one count of dereliction of duty and one count of missing movement. He was allowed to present a defense, but was not allowed to challenge the eligibility of POTUS. Allowing any servicemember to challenge the authority of POTUS would be ridiculous, and create chaos and widespread insubordination.