{"id":147942,"date":"2023-09-30T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147942"},"modified":"2023-09-30T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T11:55:18","slug":"army-command-sergeant-major-to-end-30-year-service-with-a-bad-conduct-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147942","title":{"rendered":"Army Command Sergeant Major to end 30-year service with a bad conduct discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Command Sergeant Major Joseph Lundberg poses with others at the Peace Support Operations Training Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Peace Support Operations Training Center)<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joseph Lundberg, as Command Sergeant Major, was accused of engaging in sexual harassment\/assault, disrespect, etc. He pleaded guilty to some of the charges while others were thrown out. Lundberg is set to serve concurrent 30-day jail terms. He will also trade his Sergeant Major rank for Specialist. The end of the article says he would be reduced to E-1. The charges that he pleaded guilty to include a drunken event that involved snapping a woman’s bra strap while making an inappropriate comment, and for touching another woman’s breast without her consent.<\/p>\n

From Stripes:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Under the terms of a plea deal and sentencing by military judge Col. Charles Pritchard, Lundberg will end his 30-year career as an E-4 with a bad conduct discharge. He was sentenced to five 30-day jail terms for each of the counts he pleaded guilty to but will serve those sentences concurrently.<\/p>\n

Lundberg pleaded guilty to two counts of assault that stemmed from a drunken evening at a bar at Camp Butmir, where the NATO headquarters is located.<\/p>\n

He admitted to snapping a female colleague’s bra strap and making an inappropriate comment while at the bar.<\/p>\n

Later that night, another acquaintance who lived off base was too intoxicated to go home and instead went to Lundberg’s quarters to sleep. While she was there, Lundberg touched her breasts without consent.<\/p>\n

“What started as a night of celebration rapidly turned into an indescribable 18-month nightmare from which the trauma still endures,” the woman said in court, adding that she has spent nearly $15,000 on counseling to help her process what happened.<\/p>\n

“Just hearing the letters ‘CSM’ has been a daily reminder of what he did,” the woman said, referring to the initials for command sergeant major.<\/p>\n

Command sergeant majors are the highest-ranking enlisted soldiers in the military.<\/p>\n

A civilian colleague testified that Lundberg repeatedly made sexual advances, which led to his guilty plea on one count of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

“I felt very stressed, which my husband, my child and my family felt every day I came back from work,” the colleague told the court amid tears.<\/p>\n

She said she feared that coming forward might result in financial implications for her family, including the loss of her job.<\/p>\n

Lundberg also pleaded guilty to disrespecting a superior female commissioned officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina by making “degrading” comments about her sexual behavior.<\/p>\n

His fifth guilty plea was to an obstruction of justice charge stemming from his deletion of text messages related to his offenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stripes provides additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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