{"id":29404,"date":"2012-04-06T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29404"},"modified":"2012-04-06T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:44:04","slug":"how-about-some-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29404","title":{"rendered":"How about some consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve all seen how I condemned Marine Sergeant Gary Stein<\/a> for continuing to run his mouth on his keyboard on his Facebook page and making stupid threats about what he would and wouldn’t do. It was immature and childish for to continue after his commanders told him to stop. Whether you think you have rights or not, you’re just begging for bad things to happen to you. And I’m not going to defend him in any way, shape or form, but the Marines should step back for a minute and think about what they’re doing. According to US News<\/a>, they’re thinking about serving him a Big Chicken Dinner (a euphemism for a Bad Conduct Discharge);<\/p>\n

A Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page has committed misconduct and should be dismissed, a military board recommended late Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps administrative board made the decision after a daylong hearing at Camp Pendleton for Sgt. Gary Stein.<\/p>\n

The board also recommended that Stein be given an other-than-honorable discharge. That would mean Stein would lose his benefits and would not be allowed on any military base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, it’s a board recommendation, so it’s not a foregone conclusion. Stein’s commander gets to make the final decision. Me? I’d like to see a little consistency from the USMC. <\/p>\n

Recall, if you will the case of Adam Kokesh who got a General Discharge<\/a>, because he cussed in writing at an officer<\/a> who was investigating whether or not he wore his Marine uniform at protest. They let Kokesh continue his college career at the expense of the American taxpayer. And the same goes for their investigation of Liam Madden who represented himself as a veteran while he was “making disloyal statements during a speech in February in New York, when he says he wasn’t wearing his uniform” according to the Washington Post<\/a>. Neither Kokesh nor Madden lost their benefits.<\/p>\n

Now, the Marine Corps wants to take Stein’s benefits away after nine years of service. Now, I was all for them yanking Kokesh’s and Madden’s benefits, but since they didn’t, it hardly seems fair to pull Stein’s plug. I’d hate to think that the Marine Corps judges these things based on who is being criticized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve all seen how I condemned Marine Sergeant Gary Stein for continuing to run his mouth … How about some consistency<\/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":[37,184,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-marine-corps","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404","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=29404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}