I read in one article that the military has taken legal action to bring Green back onto active duty in the Army.
Hhmmm..THAT would be interesting. I know they CAN- wonder how that would play out.
Padre, you probably know this, but the military does have the authority to do that in cases like Green where there is a commuted IRR obligation, or in the case of retirees.
I have seen it used to shelter the guilty. A civilian DA was going to indict the former post commander of Fort Devens for various small time criminality. (His name was Richard Kattar and one of the deals was a kickback on rubbish dumpsters -- his payoff was an executive job on the sole-source firm on retirement). Actually the Mass Attorney General, Francis X. Bellotti, was gunning for him. The Army asserted jurisdiction and ordered Col. Kattar to active duty for the investigation... which investigated nothing, learned less, and just continued until Bellotti lost interest or an election -- I forget which. The Colonel's duty station during this period was his home, so he essentially went from retired on half pay to retired on full pay... still, I'm sure he would have given the money to skip the stress.
He had been a bit of an odd fellow anyway, which we attributed to a Korean War head wound -- he had some big gong from that unpleasantness, the SSM or perhaps DSC (I haven't looked him up). I'm sure he rests in Valhalla now. I'm not sure how I feel about the Army trying to keep an old hero out of a dumpster kickback scandal, but it's what the law types call "moot". (or as Kattar would have said, "a mute point." I think he was one of the Army's last high school dropout colonels!)
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