{"id":68859,"date":"2016-11-09T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68859"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:53:23","slug":"kevin-haggerty-the-awol-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68859","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Haggerty, the AWOL Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kevin<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

A few days ago, someone sent us a tip that this fellow, Kevin Haggerty, who leaned heavily on his service as a Marine while campaigning for political office in Pennsylvania, had actually been a deserter during his brief period of service. I couldn’t verify any of it, because I couldn’t get a FOIA in the few days before the election. But if what they say in the Scranton Times-Tribune<\/a> is true, yeah, it looks like he was a deserter;<\/p>\n

The chronological record notes Mr. Haggerty\u2019s status as a deserter as \u201c970611 DROP\/DCL DES.\u201d The meaning of this abbreviation is in the Marine Corps Individual Records Administration Manual, which is available online. The numbers are the date, June 11, 1997, that Mr. Haggerty was declared a deserter.<\/p>\n

The document also shows the phrase \u201cUA(AWOL),\u201d which means \u201cunauthorized absence\/absent without leave,\u201d next to the numbers \u201c970511 TO 970610,\u201d meaning May 11 to June 10, 1997, the 30 days before Mr. Haggerty was declared a deserter.<\/p>\n

On another line appears the phrase, \u201cUA\/AWOL,\u201d next to the numbers \u201c970611 TO 970720,\u201d meaning June 11 to July 20, 1997.<\/p>\n

The document shows he returned to active duty on July 21, 1997, as an assistant police sergeant, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, moved to the Marine Reserves on Sept. 13, 1997, as a cannoneer at a unit in Reading, and was officially discharged entirely from the Marines on Sept. 15, 1998.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He had nine months (3 months of which he was AWOL\/Deserter) on active duty from December 30, 1996, to September 12, 1997 and then he was in the reserves September 13, 1997 to September 15, 1998. That doesn’t sound like an ordinary tour of duty, not at all. He claims that he has an honorable discharge, though. This is his proof (you can skip the two minutes of video and go to the screenshot, because that’s all of his discharge that he shows);<\/p>\n