The bimbo formerly known as "Specialist" Jashinski
Posted on 05/25/2006 5:55:29 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
FORT BENNING, GA (AP) -- A former Wisconsin resident who joined the National Guard while attending college in Texas and unsuccessfully sought conscientious objector status has received a bad conduct discharge, an anti-war group reports.
Spc. Katherine Jashinski, 23, originally from Wautoma, Wis., also was sentenced to 120 days of confinement at Fort Benning in the decision handed down Tuesday.
The Iraq Veterans Against the War said Jashinski, of Austin, Texas, pleaded guilty to refusing to obey a legal order but was acquitted of the more serious charge of missing movement by design.
A post spokeswoman, Tracy Bailey, confirmed that Jashinski received 120 days confinement but could not confirm other details.
Jashinski was said to be the first female soldier to seek conscientious objector status in a stand against fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Army denied her application for a discharge and she was court-martialed for refusing the train with weapons.
The veterans group, which said it had members who attended the hearing, said that with 53 days of confinement already behind her at Fort Benning, and 20 days off for good behavior, Jashinski has 47 days remaining.
She plans to return to school at the University of Texas in Austin and continue working with the newly founded Austin GI Rights Hotline, the group said.
Aiden Delgado, a soldier who successfully filed as a conscientious objector while he served at Iraq's Abu Grayb prison, said he was in court when Jashinski testified she did not want a free ride or to take money from the Army, but she had come to a realization she couldn't kill another human being.
Delgado said the genuine nature of her testimony could explain the relatively light sentence, considering that she had faced a possible five years in jail.
According to court records, Jashinsky enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard in April 2002 while enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Texas, entitling her to various educational benefits and bonus pay.
Her unit was notified in April 2004 of possible mobilization and deployment to Afghanistan, and she submitted the application as a conscientious objector in June 2004.
She said in past interviews that her opposition to war developed during her first two years in the Guard, as she watched television and computer reports about the fighting in Afghanistan and then Iraq, met people from other parts of the world and did more reading in history and philosophy.
She said she now disagrees with war of any sort.
"I believe that any person doing any job in the Army contributes in some way to the planning and preparation for war," Jashinski said last November at a news conference outside the main gate to Fort Benning.
She was assigned as a cook to the 111th Area Support Group of Austin.
Well, DUH, Sweetheart! My 20 years served were for just that very purpose! What part of this don't you understand? Oh, the part where you were expected to honor the contract you SIGNED when you enlisted and they gave you all that money for school? Yeesh.
You got off so frickin' easy! You should've been made an example.
Well put. Good God...it is everything I can do to keep my eyeballs from rolling backwards in my head.
Just unbelievable.
Hooah to that Diana.
Enjoy your stint in lockup, ya' moonbat.
Exactly...She should have gotten the max.
I can see someone going for CO status back in the days of the draft.......but there hasn't been one for some time, and NEVER one for women.
She ENLISTED for crying out loud........you're right she got off too easy.
The bimbo formerly known as "Specialist" Jashinski
Well, obviously now she's just a pacifist, after all, there is no problem in this world that cannot be solved over afternoon tea and crumpets, followed by a meditation session and a chant of "Kumbaya"...Wonder how peaceful she'll feel when she feels the knife blade of some Islamic freak against her neck? BARF!
A Cook! My Step Brother was a Cook in the Crotch did 730 days as a grunt in VN + 60 for being a Marine, we don't need no friggen cooks, we were in Chelsea Navel together.
I'd de-program her.
Only 20...?
"Only 20...?"
She earned those days off for good behavior by wearing panties on her head.
Expect a book and a movie about this ninny. I'm sure publishers all over the USA are already in a bidding war for the rights to this Great American Hero Saga. I sell books for a living and Moonbats live to buy books like this to re-enforce their psychosis.
"According to court records, Jashinsky enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard in April 2002 while enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Texas, entitling her to various educational benefits and bonus pay."
Not anymore!!! Wonder if the commies who used her, will pay her tuition now?
In an all volunteer force, how can anyone who joins be a conscientious objector except by deceit and misrepresentation. (you can't be a dixie chick and a guardsman/guardsperson). Anyone who joins up and doesn't know what they are joining is too stupid to deserve any consideration anyway. And the military won't take retards.
"Moonbats live to buy books like...."
hahaha...
Now there is an opportunity...what BS can we feed/sell them...
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