Marines move to discharge protesting Iraq vet

[Kadie]

Marines move to discharge protesting Iraq vet
By Carey Gillam
2 hours, 5 minutes ago


KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters)- A U.S. military disciplinary panel on Monday recommended that a decorated combat Marine be involuntarily discharged after he joined an anti-war demonstration and spoke out against the Iraq war.
The three-member panel at a Marine command center in Kansas City recommended that 25-year-old Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh be given a general discharge -- one step below an "honorable discharge" and a reflection of "significant negative" conduct.

Kokesh was accused of misconduct for wearing desert fatigues at a protest in Washington in March to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Kokesh said he would appeal the recommendation, which stops short of the honorable discharge he wants but is better than the dishonorable discharge that could have been recommended.

"I'm standing on principle and we're going to contest this on principle. It's not going to go away," he said.

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[ThomCat]

1. He had already been given an honorable discharge.

They recalled him just to pull this shit. x(

[lonestarnot]

2. Nope that's up for discussion. Someone else here posted that he was

not processed.

[keopeli]

3. If you're point is that this is a technicality the military has used, you would be correct.

Kokesh was slated for an Honorable Discharge. The cumbersome process has to do with military issues, delayed discharges, and a whole host of other trivia.

They picked him out for this punishment. He did nothing wrong (imo).

peace

[lonestarnot]

5. No, I'm talking about processing. They hadn't processed the discharge paperwork.

[keopeli]

7. And that's not a technicality? This is all about a gun he bought in Iraq.

He would not have been forced to join the IRR if the Bush Admin had not decimated our military.

He was already Honorably Discharged. The current administrative hearing is the result of a technicality, actually many.

Are you able to say otherwise?

peace

[Recovered Repug]

8. When you sign an enlistment, it's for 8 years.

That's counting active duty, active reserve, or inactive reserve. That was true 25 years ago when I enlisted, just as it is now. Like it or not, Bush didn't "force" him to join the IRR.

[evlbstrd]

4. They use the fact that he's still IRR.

Inactive Ready Reserve.
Still bullshit.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The heroic marine crotch strikes bravely to defend our freedoms.

Hasn't changed much since I wasted 4 years in it.

Eat the apple and fuck the corps.