{"id":84677,"date":"2019-01-30T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84677"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:32:29","slug":"marine-deemed-falsely-accused-of-war-crimes-is-recommended-for-higher-retired-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84677","title":{"rendered":"Marine deemed falsely accused of war crimes is recommended for higher retired rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2019\/01\/marine-deemed-falsely-accused-of-war-crimes-is-recommended-for-higher-retired-rank\/?fbclid=IwAR0MsWN8BfBrDWddfyRS5CiODpL4wHg-yVBdglIGMN_nCpD3m37-G4cNeLs\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/150129-F-PT194-021-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A retired Marine Corps officer whose career was damaged after his unit was falsely accused in 2007 of war crimes in Afghanistan should have his rank elevated and be awarded back pay for damages, a Navy board has determined. The Navy&#8217;s Board for Correction of Naval Records determined there were extensive errors in performance reports for Maj. Fred Galvin stemming from a 2007 firefight in Afghanistan and a separate review in 2011. As a result, Galvin was passed over for promotion to lieutenant colonel. The board, in an October ruling that was approved Wednesday by the Navy, recommended that Galvin be assigned the retired rank of lieutenant colonel and receive commensurate back pay. The next step is for a special selection board to assemble and make a final determination on the promotion, according to the Navy board&#8217;s report. Galvin said his ultimate hope is to return to uniform after being forced into retirement in 2014. &#8220;I would like to continue to serve,&#8221; Galvin said. \u201cGod bless the people on this (board) for standing up for us. This is a huge step forward.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This entire debacle was not one of the Corps finest moments in my opinion.\u00a0 \u00a0When there was a growing trend by the Administration to vilify and prosecute warriors, the Corps turned their backs on a few of their own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Marines didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d Galvin said in a phone interview Friday. \u201cBut nobody in uniform has ever stood up and said these Marines didn\u2019t kill civilians. Nobody in uniform ever stood up for us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Better late than never, I guess.\u00a0 I have met the leadership that is currently at the top of the Corps several times, can&#8217;t say I am a big fan of their\u00a0leadership style.\u00a0 What we need is a little less cowbell and a bit more esprit\u00a0de corps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2019\/01\/marine-deemed-falsely-accused-of-war-crimes-is-recommended-for-higher-retired-rank\/\">Marine deemed falsely accused of war crimes is recommended for higher retired rank<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Marine Corps officer whose career was damaged after his unit was falsely accused in &hellip; <a title=\"Marine deemed falsely accused of war crimes is recommended for higher retired rank\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84677\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine deemed falsely accused of war crimes is recommended for higher retired rank<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":84678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84677","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}