{"id":60634,"date":"2015-06-30T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60634"},"modified":"2015-06-29T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T21:16:27","slug":"maj-mathew-golsteyn-urged-by-panel-to-take-honorable-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60634","title":{"rendered":"Maj. Mathew Golsteyn urged by panel to take honorable discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Major Mathew Golsteyn was told by a panel of senior officers after a six-day hearing at Fort Bragg, NC that he should accept their offer of a honorable discharge for “conduct unbecoming an officer”.<\/p>\n

Army Special Forces Command spokeswoman Maj. Allison Aguilar said Monday that if the decision is upheld by a review board Golsteyn would be discharged under honorable conditions allowing him to keep nearly all veteran’s benefits.<\/p>\n

Golsteyn’s Colorado-based defense lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, said the panel didn’t describe which conduct it found unbecoming an officer.<\/p>\n

“Therefore, I can’t tell you what they found,” Stackhouse said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story is that Golsteyn once took a lie-detector test with some CIA dudes during which he admitted that he had murdered a suspected Taliban bomb-maker. The Army has conducted an investigation and could find nothing beyond his admission that they could use at a trial, so they took an administrative action instead and removed from his records his Special Forces tab and his Silver Star medal which was being considered for an upgrade to the Distinguished Service Cross.<\/p>\n

Iraq and Afghanistan Marine Corps veteran, Congressman Duncan Hunter has taken up Golsteyn’s cause and claims that he won’t stop until Golsteyn’s honors are restored and his Silver Star is upgraded to the DSC;<\/p>\n

“Bottom line, the Army’s effort to discredit Matt began well before his Board was even organized, as evidenced by the Secretary’s actions to strip his valor awards in order to imply some sort of guilt. His valor awards are still owed to him,” said Hunter, a San Diego Republican and former Marine officer.<\/p>\n

An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Ben Garrett, declined comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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