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"It appears that the Army's ticket to recruitment success is finding young men and women with limited opportunities," Dancs said in a release accompanying the report.

First Coast Guard Academy Court-martial

Webster M. Smith faced the first general court-martial of a cadet in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy after he was accused of sexual assault, and the culture and climate of the academy came under scrutiny.

Twentynine Palms, CA.: Discovery of bones prompts investigation

Because the remains were found close to the Marine training center, the NCIS took over the investigation, officials said.

Air Force Times - ‘Indecent exposure’ could be a sex crime

The Joint Service Committee on Military Justice has proposed making indecent exposure a sex crime covered under Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Currently, indecent exposure is considered a violation of Article 134, which covers general discipline issues.

Haditha prosecutors may not need to name all dead Iraqis

"The charges that have been preferred reflect the deaths that are supported by the investigation at this point," Marine Maj. Jeff Nyhard said in a prepared statement. "The investigation is ongoing and there is always the potential for additional charges."

This moments old email exchange between myself and David Brahms:
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David (I'll append a title if you're able to earn my respect),

Before I answer more completely your correspondence (and I may not), respond publicly in writing via email regarding what you know about:

1) The criminal misadventures of senior NCIS Special Agent James Connolly,
2) The criminal misadventures of SES S/A Ernie Simon,
3) The criminal business of incumbent Navy TJAG Bruce Macdonald,
4) The connections between reported criminals Simon, Connolly, and Macdonald to your client, Marine Lance Corporal Robert Pennington,
5) The date you first learned of my notice to the defense teams regarding these connections, the date you first received "the binder" Captain Greenlaw holds, the date you first reviewed the contents of that binder,
6) The date you first reviewed any single document I've made available to the Shumate family in September 2006, or any document I've made available to numbers of people since the Hamdania case erupted,
7) Explain why materials I've turned over, made public have not been used to compromise cases against the Pendleton 8 and more clearly, why no one from your defense team has used these materials,
8) Tell me what you know about recent federal criminal charges I've leveled against Connolly, Simon, Macdonald and others,
9) Explain your failures to act on information I've supplied juxtaposed to your on-the-record NEWSMAX comments regarding the Hamdania Marines,
10) Supply citations where you're on the record condemning the military discipline system as incompetent, defective, and unreliable to punish you client, comments that would be considered in keeping with Army TJAG Sam Ansell's observations,
11) Share with us all your commitment to the Constitution. How ya doin' with that oath you took, 12) Do you embrace and endorse comments made by Robert E. Milstead (Vanity Fair, pg. 30, Jan. 2007 issue), or do you condemn his words,
13) In summary: Explain what you've done to defend our Marines using material I've long made public.

The battle is joined David!! You're throwing spit balls at a battleship.

More: your orders have no power over me.

Here endth the lesson!

In utter contempt,
/s/
Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III


David M. Brahms wrote:

COMMANDER:

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED TO ME, THAT YOU CALLED THE PARENTS OF MY CLIENT, LCPL ROBERT PENNINGTON, AND URGED THEM TO FIRE ME AS THE COUNSEL FOR THEIR SON. THIS WAS APPARENTLY GROUNDED ON YOUR BELIEF THAT I WAS SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY TO DENY MEMBERS OF THE NAVAL SERVICE THEIR RIGHT TO A FAIR ADJUDICATION. THE TWISTED LOGIC UPON WHICH THIS ADVISORY IS GROUNDED IS THAT SINCE I ROSE TO BECOME THE SENIOR LAWYER IN THE MARINE CORPS, I MUST BE PARTY TO A GRAND CONSPIRACY WHICH YOU CONTEND HAS PERMEATED THE “JAG CORPS.”

IT SEEMS THIS CANARD IS NOW BEING BANDIED ABOUT THE AIRWAYS. BZ FOR A JOB WELL DONE! YOU ARE HEREBY AWARDED AN “E” FOR ATTEMPTED CHARACTER ASASSINATION. PLEASE DISPLAY IT PROUDLY ON THE REAR OF YOUR VEHICLE.

I HAVE NO IDEA IN HELL HOW I CAME TO BECOME A POSTER BOY IN THE LONG STANDING FIGHT TO OVERTURN YOUR SPECIAL COURT-MARTIAL CONVICTION. FRANKLY, I DON’T CARE! IF SOMEHOW YOU DERIVE PERVERSE PLEASURE FROM CALLING ME OUT, GO TO IT. HOWEVER, LEAVE THE PENNINGTONS OUT OF YOUR LOOP. THE RUCKSACK OF THEIR LIVES IS FULL. THE LAST THING THEY NEED IS THE ADDITIONAL BURDEN OF DEALING WITH UNWANTED CALLS FROM YOU. PLEASE RESPECT THEIR WISHES AND DO NOT AGAIN CALL THEM.

DAVID M. BRAHMS

800 GRAND AVE, STE. CI4

CARLSBAD, CA 92008

760-434-7206 OFFICE

760-434-1020 FAX

4 U.S. marines face Haditha murder charges

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In December, Daniel Smith, a Marine who took part in the war games in 2005, was sentenced by a Makati City court to 40 years in prison for raping a Filipina in Subic, Olongapo. After spending several days at the city’s jail, Smith was transferred last week to the US Embassy in Manila.

Pressed in Iraq, U.S. Army turns out interrogators

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Olson and Kakesako have been ordered to report for Watada’s hearing at Fort Lewis on Thursday, and then for his court martial Feb. 5.

U.S. Marine kills Iraqi soldier in fight | US News | Reuters.com

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has initiated a criminal investigation,' the statement said.

Military Poll

Barely one in three service members approve of the way the president is handling the war, according to the new poll for the four papers (Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Times). In another startling finding, only 41% now feel it was the right idea to go to war in Iraq in the first place.

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