{"id":77160,"date":"2018-01-15T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77160"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:35:42","slug":"joe-chamblin-wins-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77160","title":{"rendered":"Joe Chamblin wins another one"},"content":{"rendered":"

HMC Ret sends a link to the news<\/a> that former Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Joe Chamblin who lost his job as a sniper when someone posted a video of his team urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters has won another court battle;<\/p>\n

The United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals decided today it would not reconsider its November decision in the case of former Staff Sgt. Joe Chamblin, according to documents reviewed by Military.com.<\/p>\n

Chamblin was one of a handful of Marine Corps scout snipers filmed urinating on Taliban corpses during a 2011 deployment to Afghanistan. The video spurred outrage when it was uploaded to YouTube in early 2012.<\/p>\n

In total, eight Marines would face punishment in the fallout. Chamblin was sentenced in December 2012 to 30 days’ confinement and demoted to sergeant for his participation, a sentence that would ultimately spell the end of his Marine Corps career.<\/p>\n

But in November, five years after the initial sentence, NMCCA found that then-Commandant Gen. James Amos had taken a number of steps that would erode the public’s trust in the fairness of Chamblin’s trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

General Amos was found to have used his influence to “crush” Marines involved in the incident.<\/p>\n

According to sworn testimony from then-Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, who was initially appointed to oversee the sniper prosecutions, Amos met with him and told him the defendants needed to be “crushed” for their actions.<\/p>\n

Waldhauser said he did not plan to send all of the Marines to general court-martial, and Amos allegedly told Waldhauser he could have him removed from his oversight role. Shortly thereafter, Waldhauser was replaced by another general.<\/p>\n

According to Waldhauser, Amos said at the time that he had “crossed the line” in his previous conversation and was removing Waldhauser as a remedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the article, the Government has two months to decide whether or not to appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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