FOXNews has an update on the so-called Army Birther Doc situation. The story appears to speculate that LTCOL Terry Lakin tried to generate a court martial against himself with the intention of forcing Obama to produce his birth certificate. Several prominent attorneys who specialize in military law weigh in, make comparisons to similar failed attempts during the Vietnam War era and opine that birth certificate issue is irrelevant:
Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to be president and commander-in-chief, because he believes (incorrectly) that Obama wasn't born in the United States.
The Associated Press ran a story about a new policy seeking to punish those who become pregnant in Iraq:
A U.S. Army general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialed.
The new policy, outlined last month by Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo and released Friday by the Army, would apply to both female soldiers who become pregnant on the battlefield and the male soldiers who impregnate them.
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Lance Cpl. Jonathan A. Phillips’ fellow Marines all knew one thing: He should not be in combat. His reaction to the deaths of four friends in the span of two weeks gave Phillips’ commanders enough concern to send him to a mental health expert. Then again. Then two more times.
But whatever the battle-hardened Marine was dealing with inside, his outward demeanor was of a man ready for duty. At least that’s the impression he gave the doctors. And to the chagrin of his fellow Marines — including his platoon commander, who personally contacted a psychiatrist at Camp Fallujah — he was sent back in.
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Then came Jan. 20. Phillips, after hearing small-arms fire, spotted an Iraqi policeman in a marked car and shot him in his chest.
MilitaryTimes has a story on a lawsuit filed by a Marine seeking relief for PTSD caused by training:
SAN DIEGO — Jesse Klingler joined the Marine Corps to serve his country and fight the bad guys.
But his enlistment as a rifleman was cut short after he was wounded in a super-realistic 2004 training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s Camp Elliott, during which he was taken hostage, tied and bound. Then, a hired actor — playing the role of an insurgent — pointed a very real AK47 assault rifle near then-Pfc. Klingler’s thigh and fired the hot gases from two blank rounds into his flesh.
