[edge919]

I’m sure that you are just ignorant of the facts of the court martial and not just lying, but the charges against LtC. Lakin involved his failure to get on a specific flight to report for DEPLOYMENT.

Non-Sequitur posted an example of what I was referring to, only a couple of days ago, "Lakin wasn't ordered to Afghanistan, he was ordered to report to his brigade commander's office located in the D.C. are and to report for duty with a unit in Kentucky." Dobson can't replace someone who was never specifically ordered to go Afghanistan. It is a non-sequitur.

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[jamese777]

Non-Sequitur posted an example of what I was referring to, only a couple of days ago, “Lakin wasn’t ordered to Afghanistan, he was ordered to report to his brigade commander’s office located in the D.C. are and to report for duty with a unit in Kentucky.” Dobson can’t replace someone who was never specifically ordered to go Afghanistan. It is a non-sequitur.

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It wasn’t an either/or, it was a BOTH. LTC. Lakin was ordered to deploy AND he was ordered to two different superior officers’ offices because he failed to show up for the first step of deployment which was to relocate himself to Fort Campbell, Kentucky via Charlotte, North Carolina.
Lakin ignored those orders and plead guilty to ignoring the orders to report and was convicted of failing to deploy.

The Charge Sheet for Colonel Lakin specifies that he was to board a US Air flight at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in order to deploy and I quote “IN SUPPORT OF OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM.” Guess where Operation Enduring Freedom is located? Why it’s AFGHANISTAN!!!

When Major Dobson testified, there was NO objection from the Lakin defense to the fact that Major Dobson was the replacement doctor, sent on two weeks’ notice, to replace Lieutenant Colonel Lakin at the Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan.

Here’s a link to LTC. Lakin’s charge sheet:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30359983/LTC-LAKIN-CHARGED-Chargesheet-apf-14-chargesheet