{"id":125521,"date":"2022-05-04T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125521"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:36:52","slug":"army-officer-convicted-at-first-known-covid-court-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125521","title":{"rendered":"Army officer convicted at first known COVID court martial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_125522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125522\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-125522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1LT-Mark-Bashar-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1LT-Mark-Bashar-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1LT-Mark-Bashar-472x333.png 472w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1LT-Mark-Bashar-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1LT-Mark-Bashar.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1LT Mark Bashar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>US Army First Lieutenant Mark Bashar, a former Air Force NCO, has been convicted by a judge at a special court martial for failing to follow lawful orders. His crimes? Not wearing a mask indoors and, now this is the big one, showing up to work! The monster. All hail Pfauci, for he is The Science\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2022\/05\/03\/army-officer-convicted-in-first-known-covid-court-martial\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mil-ebb\">Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An officer who formerly served as the Army Public Health Center\u2019s headquarters company commander was convicted by a special court-martial Friday of two specifications of violating lawful orders to comply with COVID-19 mitigation measures at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>1st Lt. Mark Bashaw was found guilty of refusing an order to telework and reporting to his office without submitting to a COVID-19 test or otherwise furnishing a negative test result, according to installation spokesperson Amburr Reese. Those mitigation measures were required of unvaccinated troops at Aberdeen.<\/p>\n<p>Bashaw, a former Air Force NCO and father of three, was also found guilty of failing to wear a mask indoors. The trial concluded Friday. His listed attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent via social media.<\/p>\n<p>The military judge who oversaw Bashaw\u2019s trial opted not to punish him. However, the conviction gives Bashaw a criminal record that may impede future employment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a careful consideration of the evidence, a military judge exercised lawful authority not to adjudge punishment for 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw,\u201d Reese said in a statement to Army Times. \u201cReceiving no punishment at a court-martial is not without precedent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Army does not categorize court-martial convictions as felonies or misdemeanors, many civilian jurisdictions treat a conviction in special court-martial convened by military judge alone, which this one was, as a misdemeanor,\u201d Reese added.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Yevgeny Vindman, the top lawyer for Army Communications-Electronics Command, which oversees Aberdeen Proving Ground, tweeted that he was \u201cproud\u201d of the \u201cfirst in the nation conviction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait a minute. &#8220;Colonel Vindman&#8221; is &#8220;proud&#8221; of this conviction? There&#8217;s something about that name&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army First Lieutenant Mark Bashar, a former Air Force NCO, has been convicted by a &hellip; <a title=\"Army officer convicted at first known COVID court martial\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125521\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army officer convicted at first known COVID court martial<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,359,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-army","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}