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Leading off the day, there is an Army SFC\u00a0 Shantaya Williams whose attorney is raising hell about a drug-lord style raid on his deserter.<\/p>\n
Recently released body camera footage of the 2022 arrest of an Army reservist in her home on a desertion charge shows police breaking down the door of the woman\u2019s home at gunpoint as she cared for her 1-year-old child.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Army has ignored my repeated requests to have her medically separated and processed for her PTSD and post partum depression that started this entire process,\u201d her attorney, Sean Timmons, wrote in an email response to Army Times. \u201cHer command is grossly negligent, completely derelict and vindictive as evidenced by repeated bad faith refusals to negotiate a reasonable plea agreement in good faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegation that she is a deserter is defamatory, outrageous, salacious and unsupported by any evidence,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Seems US Marshals and local Grand Prairie police arrested her pretty heavy-handedly – smoke grenades, broke her door in, entered with weapons drawn behind flash grenades.\u00a0 Bad Army! Oh – anyone notice a lack? Yep, the warrant was turned to the Marshals and Grand Prairie police…this was not an Army action, this was Marshals reacting to a fugitive warrant.<\/p>\n
Williams is an Iraq War veteran who entered the Army in 1997. She fought her transfer from 2nd Battalion, 381st Army Regiment in Texas to the 497th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion in Virginia. At the time she cited post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, a new baby and child custody struggles she hoped would help her appeal the transfer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Army has ignored my repeated requests to have her medically separated and processed for her PTSD and post partum depression that started this entire process,\u201d her attorney, Sean Timmons, wrote in an email response to Army Times. \u201cHer command is grossly negligent, completely derelict and vindictive as evidenced by repeated bad faith refusals to negotiate a reasonable plea agreement in good faith.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Damn! The lawyer wants to do something and the Army didn’t want to.<\/p>\n
\nShe fought her transfer from 2nd Battalion, 381st Army Regiment in Texas to the 497th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion in Virginia. At the time she cited post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, a new baby and child custody struggles she hoped would help her appeal the transfer.<\/p>\n
She was charged with desertion on Oct. 29, 2022, and Grand Prairie police and U.S. Marshals arrested her under allegations of desertion on Nov. 30, 2022.<\/p>\n
The Army first notified Williams in February 2022 of her transfer, Timmons said. She was ordered to her new unit between Sept. 28 and Oct. 28, 2022.<\/p>\n
The sergeant continued to petition the transfer and was alerted that she would be put on AWOL status, Timmons said. Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I will be the first to admit the Army does not always do as you would wish…but that doesn’t mean you ignore orders, fail to report, etc. Over 16 years in the Army and she wants to what, cut her own orders? Miss a transfer, fail to report for over 60 days?\u00a0 (I have been at duty stations where being over 2 hours late to work sent MPs to your quarters to find you.\u00a0 24 hours got you a desertion charge.)<\/p>\n
Was the raid heavy-handed? Absolutely. But the root of this seems to be that she feels the Army owes her a disability\/PTSD award they don’t think she deserves, and having made up her mind, she feels justified in blowing off orders and transfers ‘cuz “she doesn’t want to”.<\/p>\n
H\/t to Jeff LPH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"