From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 07:29:22 PST
This remind you boyz of anything?
Sonny
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:43 PM
Subject: [MV] Military Justice?
> COLUMBUS, Ohio - At a time when some U.S. troops in
> Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for
> equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were
> court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in
> Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their
> own unit's mission to Iraq.
>
> The soldiers say they needed the vehicles, and parts
> stripped from one, to deliver fuel to Iraq. Members of
> the 656th Transportation Company based in Springfield,
> west of Columbus, said they needed the equipment to
> deliver fuel that was needed by U.S. forces in Iraq
> for everything from helicopters to tanks.
>
> The reservists took two tractor-trailers and stripped
> parts from a five-ton truck that had been abandoned in
> Kuwait by other units that had already moved into
> Iraq, one of the reservists, Darrell Birt of Columbus,
> told The Associated Press on Sunday.
>
> Birt, a former chief warrant officer, and the others
> were charged with theft, destruction of Army property
> and conspiracy to cover up their crimes. Birt said he
> and two others pleaded guilty and the other three were
> convicted. All received six-month sentences.
>
> "Nobody ever reported these trucks stolen. The deal
> was, when you are moving, if it was going to take more
> than 30 minutes to fix it, you left it," said Birt,
> who was released in November. A lot of people felt
> Birt deserved a medal, not a prison sentence.
>
> In contrast to lowering the boom on these poor guys
> who were only trying to do their job, the military
> said it would not court-martial any of 23 other Army
> reservists who refused a "direct order" in a combat
> zone to transport much needed fuel to resupply
> fighting elements.
>
>
>
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