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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Army was supposed to make a decision on whether Sergeant First Class Charles Martland could remain in the Army or not after the 2011 incident wherein he scared an Afghan tribal police chief who was raping a pre-teen boy. First of all, we’re upset that he’s even being considered for elimination from the Special Forces, and secondly, we’re upset that Big Army can’t summon the testicular fortitude to make a decision on the issue at all. Martland was supposed to have known their decision today, but Big Army has pushed it out to May 1st – you know, maybe because we’ll forget about the whole thing, you know, because there’s so much to be angry about these days. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n One year ago, the Army conducted a “Qualitative Management Program” review board and called for Martland — among thousands of other soldiers with prior disciplinary issues — to be “involuntary discharged\u201d by Nov. 1, 2015.<\/p>\n Martland appealed the decision and a final ruling on his discharge has been delayed until now. With the deadline rapidly approaching, other legal advocates have come to his aid, and even garnered more than 300,000 signatures in a petition calling for the decision to be overturned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The motto of the Special Forces is “To Free the Oppressed” and I’d bet that you’d be hard pressed to find someone more oppressed than a pre-teen boy tied to a bed for the sexual pleasure of an older man who beat the boy’s mother because she couldn’t be quiet about the treatment of her son. I guess the Army thought it was a pretty good motto when The Institute of Heraldry approved it decades ago, but now it’s a little inconvenient when soldiers take it seriously. <\/p>\n One way or the other, Martland needs to get on with his life, either in or out of the Army, so the boys at the Pentagon need to sack up and make their choice. Sooner is better than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"