{"id":62207,"date":"2015-10-07T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62207"},"modified":"2015-10-07T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:55:41","slug":"army-postpones-martlands-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62207","title":{"rendered":"Army postpones Martland&#8217;s discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/10\/06\/army-secretary-delays-separation-green-beret-who-beat-up-afghan-commander\/73483506\/\">Military Times<\/a>, the Army&#8217;s Secretary, John McHugh, has postponed for 60 days the discharge of Sergeant First Class Charles Martland, who was selected for the Qualitative Management Program (QMP) because he assaulted a child molesting Afghan police chief in 2011. The postponement is to allow for Martland to file another appeal to the decision;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McHugh added that despite &#8220;talk that this case has been brought to me, and I have had a hand in it, I have not. This is a routine administrative process that does not, in any way, involve my office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Army must respect the process in cases like this, McHugh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We respect the rights of the individual soldier in these kinds of cases,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we are going to make a mistake here, we are going to make it in favor of the rights of the soldier.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The QMP is an administrative tool that is designed to remove soldiers from the Army who are poor performers, folks who probably won&#8217;t get promoted. SFC Martland is probably in that group, but the reason he&#8217;s in the QMP is for completely political reasons. He&#8217;s being eliminated for the same reasons that the Army exposed soldiers to green-on-blue attacks. When the Army gets involved in the politics of war, the soldiers are always the losers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Military Times, the Army&#8217;s Secretary, John McHugh, has postponed for 60 days the &hellip; <a title=\"Army postpones Martland&#8217;s discharge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62207\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army postpones Martland&#8217;s discharge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62207","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=62207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}