{"id":39272,"date":"2014-01-13T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39272"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:47:46","slug":"update-on-kevin-shakley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39272","title":{"rendered":"Update on Kevin Shakley"},"content":{"rendered":"

We wrote about Kevin Shakley back in August<\/a> when he told local reporters at the News Tribune <\/a>that the Army kept pestering him about the discharge that he said they didn’t mail to him after they told him to go home. Well, he was apprehended once again and the reporters got interested in the story again and figured out that Young Shakley is FOS.<\/p>\n

When Army police started raising pressure on him in August, Shakely, 28, contacted Sacramento\u2019s KTXL Fox 40 News and claimed he was an honorably discharged Iraq and Afghanistan veteran being harassed by the Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not how you treat somebody that went through what I had to go through and made the sacrifices I had to make,\u201d he told KTXL.<\/p>\n

Shakely in fact spent less than six months in uniform before deserting. Army records show he completed his initial training and spent just six days at his first duty station \u2013 Fort Lewis, before its reorganization as Joint Base Lewis-McChord.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in custody at Lewis-McChord awaiting a Jan. 22 court-martial. He is in the Army jail because he\u2019s considered a flight risk, base spokesman Joe Piek said.<\/p>\n

The Army filed eight criminal charges against him. Three are for his alleged desertion; four stemmed from the lies he\u2019s accused of telling the television station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They called last week and asked for my two cents;<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad they caught him, and I\u2019m glad he\u2019s facing all these charges,\u201d said John Lilyea of West Virginia, a retired Army noncommissioned officer who runs This Ain\u2019t Hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I guess that’s all they could use in the half-hour interview I did with the reporter. He told me that the reporter who did the initial report on Shakley had reservations about his claims, but ran with the story any way. He couldn’t tell me why.
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