{"id":20493,"date":"2010-09-18T09:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20493"},"modified":"2010-09-18T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:21:57","slug":"phony-sergeant-gets-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20493","title":{"rendered":"Phony sergeant gets six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19196\">Jesse Bernard Johnston<\/a> last Spring.<code>. Johnston fooled the Army into believing he'd been a Marine and entered the Army as a sergeant. Hismilitary experience was limited to six weeks of a 12-week Marine commissioning course. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_ARMY_INFILTRATOR?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">he's been convicted now<\/a> and sentenced to a mere 6 months in jail;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He pleaded guilty to one count of making a false official statement, two counts of larceny, two counts of wrongfully wearing a skill badge and two counts of wrongfully wearing a combat patch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>6 months for putting the lives of soldiers in danger with his inexperience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While at Fort Rucker, Johnston received advanced training for use with the Army's Corps Support Airplane Company. That unit, based in Fort Worth, has supplied pilots and intelligence and support personnel for missions aimed at destroying improvised explosive devices in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Army Secretary John M. McHugh, in a July 19 letter to U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, said military authorities acted \"swiftly and appropriately\" once they suspected that Johnston had never been a Marine. McHugh described himself as \"deeply troubled\" by the incident but said he did not consider it a sign of a more serious problem in the recruiting process.<\/p>\n<p>\"We believe that this is an isolated incident and not a larger systematic failure,\" he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The boy deserves years in prison to contemplate how he was lucky that he didn't get anyone killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Jesse Bernard Johnston last Spring.. Johnston fooled the Army into believing he&#8217;d been &hellip; <a title=\"Phony sergeant gets six months\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20493\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony sergeant gets six months<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}