{"id":26399,"date":"2011-09-06T06:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26399"},"modified":"2011-09-06T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:26:36","slug":"deserter-court-martialed-after-26-years-on-the-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26399","title":{"rendered":"Deserter court martialed after 26 years on the lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After stealing $7,000 from the morale fund he managed, James Everett decided to end his nearly 29 years of service by deserting his ship in 1985. But seein&#8217;s how he was crook at heart, he was arrested for falsely claiming VA benefits in his brother&#8217;s name which led him to a court martial earlier this year. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2011\/09\/after-decades-past-catches-navy-deserter\">Pilot-Online<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everett&#8217;s time on the lam ended this spring, when a Navy investigator in Norfolk approached him after a courtroom appearance where he&#8217;d been prosecuted on an unrelated charge of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The AWOL sailor&#8217;s undoing: applying for a Veterans Affairs pension using the first name of his younger brother, Sampson.<\/p>\n<p>For more than six years, James Everett received $822 a month from the VA. The ruse unraveled in 2007, after Tennessee turned down the real Sampson Everett&#8217;s application for food stamps, citing his military pension.<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks, James Everett, an infirm 68-year-old, was back in uniform, on duty and in a military courtroom. This time, he was to be court-martialed for desertion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His lawyer says Everett suffers from &#8220;a chronic disease for which there is no cure.&#8221; Yeah, he stole from his shipmates, then stole from the VA after he tossed away his career. The disease is called shitbagitis and there is a cure&#8230;intermittent repeated injections administered by Bubba, his cell mate. That&#8217;ll clear that shit right up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After stealing $7,000 from the morale fund he managed, James Everett decided to end his nearly &hellip; <a title=\"Deserter court martialed after 26 years on the lam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26399\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deserter court martialed after 26 years on the lam<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26399","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=26399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}