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We’ve long been critical of the Oath Keepers<\/a> as an organization, and their leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes III in particular. We last talked about him<\/a> when he was charged in regards to the January 6 riot.<\/p>\n Military.com got hold of his DD-214 and, unsurprisingly, it shows an unusually short peacetime service in the Army. His enlistment was cut short due to a “temporary disability” which Rhodes says was a training incident. From Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n On Jan. 6, 2021, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, leader and founder of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, was prepared to give an order he had no experience in giving.<\/p>\n That day, William Todd Wilson, a military veteran and one of Rhodes’ acolytes, dutifully stored a rifle, a pistol, 200 rounds of ammunition, body armor, and a camouflaged uniform in his hotel room before heading to the U.S. Capitol, according Wilson’s account of that day included in court documents released Wednesday.<\/p>\n The arsenal was to be retrieved “if called upon to do so” — a directive that would have come from Rhodes, according to the filing, the man who built his militia on the recruitment of current and former service members and their subsequent allegiance to him.<\/p>\n The recruitment pitch, often peppered with military jargon, was grounded in cryptic descriptions of Rhodes’ own military service and a warped interpretation of the military’s core ethos, painting the militia leader as a grizzled veteran keen to take up arms to defend his view of America.<\/p>\n But a copy of his Army retirement paperwork reviewed by Military.com reveals previously undisclosed details about Rhodes’ career that show a soldier who served quietly and relatively unremarkably, despite the central role his military career plays in the fabric of the Oath Keepers. He was honorably separated from the Army after serving two years and seven months on active duty, leaving at the rank of specialist with a “temporary” physical disability, according to the document.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n More at the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"