Virgil Ebrecht; Sergeant Major to Specialist
Bobo sends us this link from Popular Military which tells us of the court martial of former Army Sergeant Major Virgil Ebrecht who was the senior enlisted adviser to the commander of the 1st Space Battalion at Peterson Air Force Base. According to Popular Military, he was convicted for abusive sexual contact with a child.
PM says that even though he was originally sentenced to reduction to Specialist (E-4) and 30 months confinement, he pleaded out and only got six months of confinement. The Army Times confirms that his plea got his sentence reduced;
Fort Carson, Aug. 5:
Name: Sgt. Maj. Virgil L. Ebrecht
Conviction: By a military judge, pursuant to his plea, of one specification of abusive sexual contact of a child.
Sentence: Reduced to the grade of E-4, confined for 30 months. As part of an offer to plead guilty, a pretrial agreement limited confinement to six months.
AKO confirms that he was reduced to E-4, but he remains assigned to the Space Battalion. I’m not sure how personnel clerks handle assignments when folks are serving six months confinement, or where the Specialist is serving that sentence, but I’m sure that he won’t remain in the service after his sentence is served. The implication in the PM article is that Ebrecht is still on active duty, but, I can’t imagine that he would even want to serve among the soldiers he led a few short months ago, and now he’s a sex offender.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
He’d be better off being sent to FLW. Someone must of had a wicked sense of humor to confine him on post with
troops he used to be in charge of…
I hope he ends up having to deal with some pissed off E5 or higher telling him to grab a mop and get his ass to work as well as “STAY OFF THE GRASS!” along with plenty of time on area police call!
Word.
Leave him on the job for a while.
Fucking ticklemonster.
“Leave him on the job for a while.”
NOT JUST “on the job”, but given every shitty detail they can find for him every minute of the day, picking grass out of the sidewalks, pulling dandelions out of the PT field, sandbag filling,…
Yep. Painting rocks. Edging the sidewalks with an e-tool. Cigarette butt police calls. Then I’d deploy him to Afghanistan and put him on permanent shit burning detail. I mean just sending him around to all the FOBs in country burning there shitters, including the ANA and ANP shitters.
Sweeping the Motor Pool with a paintbrush…
Or inspecting manholes….
Nice. And I’d put a 22 year old buck sergeant in charge of the detail.
Preferably one with an attitude that the former CSM has screwed him over in the past!
The ANA and ANP have shitters?
Hand grenade tester. Landmine inspector. Bomb target. etc.
I am thinking that the E-4 Mafia will be wondering why he is being pawned off on them.
Seriously though – with a crime like this, why not all the way to E-1? I know that Senior NCOs usually get busted down to E-4 on their way out, but can’t they make an exception for such an exceptional dirtbag?
un-lucky for the PFC and the privates below
So….not being familiar with the legal/admin side of the house; after confinement is he QMP’d out as an E-4…..or does he retire as an E-4?
Assuming he has 20+ years active service, without a punitive discharge (BCD, DD) he’d retire. If not, he could conceivably end up discharged for QMP/exceeding RCP/Chapter 13. Even then it’s possible the 18 year sanctuary might prevent his discharge.
It’s possible that he escaped reduction to E1 and a punitive discharge because the court-martial panel didn’t want to kill his dependents’ eligibility for medical care after his departure from the Army. Courts-martial seem to cut sh!tbirds that break from time to time for that reason.
I read in some comments on another story about this that he has 28 years in.
The comments were wondering what the retired pay is for an E-4 over 28.
Right chere
http://www.militaryfactory.com/military_pay_scale.asp
$2451.60
Wait, that’s active duty pay,right?
I guess the commentors were wondering what his retired pay would be. But will he draw retired pay if he gets a DD or BCD once his six months have been served?
But if he does get to “retire”, would he fall under the old system or the new system? I don’t know. The way the retired systems work nowadays is just too confusing for me to try and figure out.
All I know is back when I retired at the end of 1991 my retired pay was less than a thousand dollars a month.
Yes, that’s AD pay for an E4 this year. Due to high-3-average, he’d get a bit less than 70% of that, roughly, as a pension.
Regarding getting retired pay after receiving a BCD or DD, short answer is no. A punitive discharge (BCD or DD/dismissal) makes a member of the military ineligible to retire. They are immediately discharged instead, w/o retirement benefits. If it’s a DD, by Federal law they’re also screwed VA-wise unless the VA determines they were “insane at the time they committed the crime” or the VA Secretary determines there were “extenuating circumstances”.
It’s one reason court-martial panels are sometimes reluctant to give sh!tbirds like this guy a BCD or DD. If they have a family, they’re taking medical care away from the family as well as post-service income.
One solution might be to change the UCMJ to allow a special form of forfeiture in select cases: irrevocable forfeiture of all future retired pay. That would allow courts-martial to nail a deserving a-hole like this guy bigtime (immediate discharge w/no pension), but not take medical care away from his dependents.
In this guy’s case, the argument is moot. He didn’t receive a DD or BCD as part of his sentence, and only a court-martial sentence can impose those. Since he didn’t, best I can tell he WILL retire – as an E4 over 28.
And due to retirement pay being calculated on his highest 36months he’ll still draw whatever that would be as an e9. (i’ll assume he was an e9 for at least 3 years)….
Negative. As I recall, that changed after former SMA McKinney got court-martialed and busted, but still got retired pay based on his service as an E-9. Federal law now specifically states that if an enlisted member is reduced by court-martial, nonjudicial punishment, or administrative action for cause, their retired pay is calculated based on the reduced grade. (It also says that officers deemed “not to have served satisfactorily” at their highest grade(s) will likewise have their retired pay based on the lowest grade at which they are found to have served successfully – remember, courts-martial and admin boards generally cannot reduce officers.) See 10 USC 1406 and 1407.
Bottom line is that this low-life’s retired pay just took one HUGE hit. And he still got off way too easy.
Ok, I’m a softy and am thinking of the family; but wouldn’t it be more efficient to just saddle him with a fine that is equal to half of his retired pay in perpetuity? That way, the former spouse (assuming she divorces the s^&%bag) gets her share of his retirement and she/children get their benefits.
I believe something similar to this was done with a former O-6 commander a few years ago.
Max base pay this year for an E4 is $2,451.60/mo. 28 years is 70%, so he’d get a bit under $1,700/mo in retired pay (high-36mo-average would bring it down a bit).
As a SGM with 28 years, based on high-36mo-average he’d have been looking at somewhere around $4,500/mo in retired pay (for 26 and 28 years of service, E9 base pay this year is $6,551.70/mo).
He got off so light for what he did here it’s sickening.
At day 90 of confinement he is automatically reduced to E1.
I’m TOTALLY COOL with that, but will he be wearing E4 Rank when he gets back to his unit (and hopefully getting every shit detail he can be assigned to)?
My experience is Navy/USMC…..the answer is no. 89 days of confinement and you retain your rank. Day 90 you are automatically reduced to E1.
“Didn’t want to kill his dependents’ eligibility for medical care”?????????????????
Are you shitt’n me???? At his age (likely very near 50) just how many dependents do you suppose he has? Not many rug rats running around these days when Daddy is that old. Don’t suppose somebody had an interest in his wife’s well-being do you? If the leniency was for his wife, could they not have considered her getting a divorce from him and going after his reduced retirement for alimony for her? Somehow that “Didn’t want” logic does not register in my mind. Since when does a child molester have any say in plea bargaining?
Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. Military retirement benefits aren’t a menu; they’re all or nothing.
If the court-martial had given him a punitive discharge (BCD or DD) he’d have gotten zero retired pay – as well as zero medical care/commissary/PX/etc . . . – because he would not be a retiree. A BCD or DD kills all entitlement to retirement bennies.
The same would have been true of his wife and kids – nada for medical, no commissary, etc . . . . All of those are based on the military member’s retirement. If the military member gets a punitive discharge, that all goes away – for both them and their family.
He’s probably in his mid/late 40s (enlist at 18, serve 28 years gives an estimate for age of 46). He may well still have some kids at home at that age – or kids in college (they’re eligible for TRICARE/PX/commissary/etc . . . up till 22 or 23 if in college).
I’m not saying iwhat happened here is right. But you see that often enough when senior people do stupid sh!t and get caught that one has to wonder if courts-martial are becoming reluctant to sentence low-life’s with families to BCDs and/or DDs because of the effect of loss of retirement bennies on their families.
This guy IMO fully deserved a DD and zero retired pay – he was a mid-40s guy at least hitting on a child younger than 16 (if not sleeping with them) while assigned to a critical, high-visibility position of significant responsibility. But sentencing him to that would have also screwed his family bigtime as well. I’m guessing that’s one reason the mil judge didn’t include a BCD or DD as part of the sentence.
“Sleeping with” would’ve been a different crime – “aggravated sexual assault of a child” vs. “abusive sexual contact with a child.” That’s assuming she was at least 12 and under 16, which the crime he was convicted of (abusive sexual contact with a child) implies that she was.
If she was under 12, sleeping with her would make it “rape of a child” and sexual contact would be “aggravated sexual contact with a child”…unless I am misreading the statute, which I don’t think I am.
All these “sleeping with” offenses are more serious (in terms of maximum sentence) than the one he was convicted of.
Alberich: true, and I certainly don’t know any of the details here. But it’s my understanding in such cases that what the perp admits to in his/her plea may often be far less than they actually did.
It’s entirely possible that “abusive sexual contact” could be all that the prosecution could prove without putting the victim on the stand. Example: the relationship was sexual, and there’s a 3rd party witness to an act constituting sexual contact – but no witness to any actual sex other than the underage victim.
I’d hate to see a younger teen or pre-teen put through the wringer of testifying about getting boinked by a man almost old enough to be their grandparent. A good defense attorney could make that absolute hell for a vulnerable youngster.
I have a question. Because this was a UCMJ case, does he have to register as a sex offender in the civilian world?
Hondo – that’s true. Now in my experience, a good defense attorney doesn’t go out of his way to cause pain to little girls…that just antagonizes the panel and adds pain for the client…but you are certainly right that a good defense counsel will use the testimony thing as part of his strategy. (“Let us plead to this offense, and give us that sentencing cap, and the girl can stay home.” Which is often of mutual benefit to both sides.)
Climb to Glory – Yes. Anyplace I know, he will.
Agreed.
For clarity: I was using the term “good” above in the sense of “technically competent”, not “honorable and moral”. I certainly could have made a better choice of words for the point I was trying to make.
While I agree with your comments, I want to say that at the age of 52 I have 4 kids all under the age of 6. I retire with 30 years at the end of February 2016. No, this is not a second family–the kids are all with my first (& only) wife, I didn’t get married until I was a LTC. there are a few (damn few) of us out there liek that.
No Big Chicken Dinner (BCD)?!?!
Jonn, when I was in Germany, we had a Joe get Court Martialed. I forget what the charges were, but he only got a few months in Mannheim. He was still assigned to our unit and any time he had a dental appointment or anything else of that nature, they would call us the day prior and we would have to send someone down to escort him to and from his appointment. When he finished his sentence, he came back to us and was out processed with I believe a BCD. So all of that is probably why he is still listed as part of Space Command. I’m guessing his fate after his time is served will be the same.
“I’m sure that he won’t remain in the service after his sentence is served”
Is it possible to stay in after being confined? I mean, aside from the whole E4 RCP.
If not sentenced to a punitive discharge (BCD or DD/dismissal), yes. But I understand one’s career prospects at that point are rather limited. (smile)
They should make him the new CSM’s driver.
Even better: suspend his clearance, then assign him to one of the company elements as reassignable excess/1SG’s duty soldier.
Or send him down the road to one of the remaining maneuver units at Carson in that same status (no clearance/duty soldier). Especially if he was a prick towards his professional peers in said maneuver units. (smile)
While in theater there was an E9 busted to E4.He was a brigade CSM of the 411TH. He was busted for sexual related bs, http://www.militarycorruption.com/ramsdell.htm
He also avoided a DD/BCD by peading out.
Space Command? He was SGM of Space Command?!!
Back in the day when I was still young and active duty, I would have KILLED to have been assigned to Space Command. And here this peckerhead just pisses it away. Some people. . . . . (sigh) (repeated head desk)
BTW what the hell is a Space Battalion. Is that where all the space shuttle door gunners are assigned or are they the janitorial staff for NORAD? Youth wants to know!
They fall under US Army Space and Missile Defense Command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Space_and_Missile_Defense_Command
Well, fancy that. Always figured space was an AF area. I retired in 93 and during my time it was all Nikes, which if memory serves, were being phased out. Anyhow, thanks for the link.
Here you go. Read through these and tell me this guy’s sentence isn’t, um, kindly. He’s among the listed, by the way.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/crime/2015/09/18/army-releases-results-august-courts-martial/72396422/
I was just about to post this. Bad month to be a SSG or lower. Oddly, the senior NCOs seem to have mostly avoided really harsh punishment.
I looked through those for June and July as well. I am very disturbed by the amount of sexually related convictions there are there. Especially how often child pornography comes up.
I am confused he was found guilty then took a plea after being sentenced. Can someone explain the military system to me.
As I understand it, the plea bargain was almost certainly prior to (or during) trial and was in exchange for his pleading guilty. At trial, the military judge then gave the original sentence of 30 months confinement. At that point, the plea bargain’s elements took precedence over the judge’s sentence of 30 months due to the fact that one of the plea bargain’s terms was he would receive no more than 6 months confinement.
In some civilian courts, a judge can reject or is not bound by the terms of a plea bargain. However, I believe (but am not positive) that a military judge is.
Perhaps one of our JAG regular readers can clarify/educate us all on this one.
Hondo has it right.
In the military system, after a sentence is imposed, the “convening authority” (typically the division commander) has the right to reduce that sentence. This power is the basis for plea agreements.
The plea agreement is between the accused and the general. So the general might agree that, “if you plead guilty to this, I will disapprove any confinement over six months.”
The judge, not knowing what the real limit is, accepts the guilty plea, hears the evidence, and pronounces whatever sentence he wants. Then he “opens the sealed envelope” (not literally) and sees the limits imposed by the plea deal. The convicted Soldier then gets the lower of the two sentences.
It’s a great system, from my point of view, because plea agreements are so clear and enforceable…what you see is what you get.
I’ve also seen it where a “if you are found guilty at trial” plea deal between the CG and the accused.
Interesting! I never saw that though there’s nothing illegal about it. I assume the accused is still giving up something.
I have seen deals on mixed pleas…i.e., you plead guilty to some stuff, the prosecutor still tries to prove up the other stuff, but you have a sentence cap anyway. Sometimes it’s just what the situation calls for.
It was in the 90’s when they were first starting this fraternization stuff. The SGT was parting with is team, had what he said was consensual sex with his female SPC team member, I guess she didn’t like it (and we were supposed to be under no drinking because we were in the field, so she may have thought that would help her case to say it was forcible or it may have been forcible, who knows), the CG didn’t really like the whole mess. He made a deal “in case” the kid got slammed (and he did; something like 5yrs for each count and it was like 9 counts), ended up with 7 years at FLW.
Do you know what the SGT gave up as his part of the deal? I mean, the CG could have reduced the sentence with no deal if he’d wanted to, after trial was over. That sometimes happens in those high-sentence cases. A deal (when I see it) always means the accused is giving up something in exchange.
I once got a good deal on a mixed plea because I agreed to stipulate to certain facts. These facts were not central to the defense…but the government would’ve had to fly a witness halfway around the world to prove them.
I’m not an admin specialist person, so maybe there’s some bureaucratic BS reg that prevented him from getting a BCD. That said… considering that our troops are being instructed to ignore CHILD RAPE in Afghanistan, it’s not surprising.
At some point before the verdict he copped a plea which included a sentencing recommendation. The plea originally was not guilty, I’m sure, but that changed with the deal. The judge or tribunal must still find that he did what he said he did, pursuant to the plea deal. In civilian criminal court, that occurs with an agreed statement of facts and questions to the defendant to ensure he knows what he is doing in pleading guilty. That’s my take but I am no UCMJ guy.
Send him to LBJ!
The LBJ was too good for Tickle-Monsters.
I say let him do his sentence with Charles Manson as his cell mate.
“The LBJ”, what’s that mean in English?
Believe LIRight and CLAW131 both had Vietnam service. If so, pretty sure that “LBJ” would be the main US confinement facility in country during Vietnam, the Long Binh Stockade – AKA the “Long Binh Jail”.
Yup, that’s right. My brother was stationed around Long Binh, luckily not the LBJ, though he came damn close.
Thanks to Hondo and MustangCryppie for clarifying what I should have done from the get-go.
Further clarification – I passed by LBJ in early ’68 but never spent the night as a “guest.” lol
I was based out of Phu Bai in I Corps for 71-72. C Co, 101st Aviation (Assault Helicopter) Battalion, 101st Airborne Division.
Never came anywhere close to Long Binh or the LBJ. Only knew of it as a place that you didn’t want to end up in.
I don’t remember exactly where or when it occurred (prob. Feb/68) we were set up in an NDP during Tet when the ammo dump in Long Binh or a nearby facility was blown up by NVA sappers….as I recall there was more than one HUGE explosion that night.
We (I Troop, 11th ACR) worked with the 101st on more than one occasion…..good bunch of guys!!
LIRight, a quick little search revealed that the TET68 ammo dump blow occurred the night of 30/31 Jan.
It had been blown the year before on 4 Feb 67 and later on Sappers raided it again in August of 72.
So it sounds like being “just a ammo handler at Long Binh” could have been hazardous to your health.
CLAW131
Thanks for the follow-up and the information.
Who’d a thunk that the enemy would have successfully blown up that ammo dump three times?
Maybe that was the problem….it was looked upon as a dump, excluding the word “ammo” from its description.
Take care!
“…abusive sexual contact with a child.”
Anybody who does that needs to stop breathing. Anything less is NOT JUSTICE.
“Sexual contact” is defined as “the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of another person, or intentionally causing another person to touch, either directly or through the clothing, the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person, with an intent to abuse, humiliate, or degrade any person or to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”
So…even a butt pinch through the clothing counts.
I did a quick check of the 2012 MCM; “abusive sexual contact with a child” does not imply that the child is under 12…but only under 16. (And the government doesn’t have to prove he knew the child was under 16…though he could present a defense that he reasonably believed he/she was.)
I don’t know the details here, and there are plenty of things covered by that crime that should indeed result in a cessation of aspiration. But there are others that shouldn’t.
My question to you is this: Why do men say stupid, silly shit like what you quoted above in conversation, and then when they find out their 16 year old daughter is stepping out with a 24 year old man, they about half-kill him?
We’re just trying to beat the money out of him. Exodus 22:16-17.
AR 635-200, paragraph 14-12c(3), requires that anyone convicted of a “sexually violent offense” be processed for separation…even if he did not get a punitive discharge from his CM. And abusive sexual contact with a child is a “sexually violent offense” under AR 27-10, para. 24-2.
So most likely he will be kicked out with a general discharge. (He can’t get an OTH because he went to CM and didn’t get the punitive discharge.) I suspect his command will process the paperwork while he serves his time and have it all ready to go once he’s out.
Assuming the comment above about his having 28 years of service is correct, doesn’t that mean he’ll essentially be forcibly retired with a general discharge vice an honorable one?
That goes beyond my knowledge.
I did defend a couple of seniors (on much lesser charges than this), but in each case part of the deal was that the Soldier be “allowed to retire” (i.e., honorable discharge) instead of being separated for misconduct. So I never had to delve into whether a punitive separation cancelled the retirement.
But one thing I did learn: the reduction in rank made a HUGE difference in the amount of their retirement checks. It was easy to show this to the judge, and the judge obviously considered the reduction a Very Big Deal (he didn’t assign any punishment except the reductions).
I assume the defense in this case boned up on that issue and presented it…because that’s the easiest way to understand reduction to E-4 instead of E-1 as part of the sentence. But I can’t tell you for sure whether he gets the benefits of retirement at all. (It may be in 635-200; but I don’t have time to search.)
(One thing I remember…and then I must get away for now…is that you do not get “high-three” retirement pay after a reduction by court-martial. A punitive reduction seriously, seriously affected the value.)
Yep. Believe that was due to a change in law resulting from the SMA McKinney case.
So the best case case scenario for him would be to go from $6,551.70 a month in active duty pay to $1,716.12 in monthly retired pay.
I’m betting Momma Dependapotomus (if he has one) is really loving that.
I’m hoping he gets nothing as far as retired pay at the end of his stint in lock-up.
Tickle-Monsters. I really hate those bastards.
Back in the OLD Army, I remember this older guy who showed up in the company. He had a junior rank considering his obvious maturity, kept to himself.Did his job, went nowhere.
Rumor was that he’d done something really dumb, got busted back,and was serving out the remainder of his time ’til he could retire.
If that’s the case here, which I doubt considering the offense, you’d think he’d be shipped to Thule, Greenland or Diego Garcia to put in the rest of his time.
Was still happening in the 1980s. Knew one guy who retired as a PFC with 22 years of service. He got stupid as an E7 and got involved in black-marketing in Korea, got caught, and got reduced to E3. Rumor was the only thing that prevented him from getting a BCD or DD was the fact that he already had an approved retirement date; the court-martial reportedly took that into consideration an decided to let him retire vice giving him a punitive discharge.
These days, Diego Garcia would be far too nice for someone like that.
There were Air Force officers (I personally knew two of them) whose only “crime” was not being the #1 or #2 rated lieutenant in their unit under the “controlled OER” system of the late ’70s and early ’80s and were later were passed over for major as a result, even though they were good officers. They chose to serve out the rest of their 20 years as enlisted to that they could at least retire at the highest grade held (O-3).
There is a favorite line for EER’s (Enlisted Efficiency Reports) that as an Army NCO I never got to use. It is applicable here.
“This soldier has failed to meet even the low standards he has set for himself”.
Your comment brings to mind:
http://uss-bennington.org/hu-fitnessreport.html
Hilarious!
I overheard this one:
“He is an adequate soldier, who can usually be expected to perform most of his duties with moderate supervision.”
And no, this was not some junior enlisted. Epic.
That sounds like every R&U (Repairs & Utilities) NCO I ever met.
Or the best possible leadership potential bullet on a 57G (Duty Foreman) EER.
My favorite I saw on an Army Evaluation:
“His position would better be filled by nobody”
Go back to Old-school: Fife and drum playing Rogue’s March from the barracks to the gate.
Like this?
One of my old running buddies was a prior service Marine. He said that he witnessed a Drumming Out during the sixties. He said that it had a profound effect on his continued service. It made him a better marine and he couldn’t understand how a real man could have stood up to the shame and embarrassment. This sounds like something we need to bring back, preferably at a Post Parade.
You got it!
Oh, no, NOT Chuck Connors!
I loved that show!
The RCP for a non-promotable E-4 is 10 years. Not to mention loss of clearance which is mandatory for assignment to that Unit. Since he is well beyond that, but has completed 20 years, then separation is mandatory. What a way to throw it all away.
IIRC his son was a Marine who was killed in Afhganistan in a blue on blue attack. His killer was an Afghan teen who the son was trying to protect from sexual abuse by the other Afghans.
Perhaps they took his son’s service into consideration.
I am sorry to hear that, both for the loss and for the possibility that the father may have now tarnished the son’s name. And IF that was a factor and it was raised by this sex offender, I hope he burns.
IIRC his son was a Marine who was killed in Afhganistan in a blue on blue attack. His killer was an Afghan teen who the son was trying to protect from sexual abuse by the other Afghans.
Perhaps they took his son’s service into consideration.
(spc) Hey back when I was CSM this is how we did it. (PFC) Shut the Fark up and clean the pubs out of the urinal TROOP!
George Washington would have taken one look at this perv’s actions, then had the perv in question hanged by the neck until dead.
I wonder what happened to that?
Just idle curiosity, but I always thought that if someone was convicted at court martial and sentenced to the brig, then that person was reduced to E-1.
Guess I was wrong.
That happens if the sentence is more than 6 months…or includes a punitive discharge.
Now that I think about it, that’s probably why the judge stopped at 6 months when reducing to E-4. One day more and it would’ve been E-1 anyway.
Ahhh. Thanks very much.
He looks like an asshole, so hopefully the POS junior Specialist is reaping the rewards. If I were his squad leader or PSG, he’d be last in succession for command–subordinate to the newest E-1.
Having learned last week that I’ll be starting my ninth year as a SSG soon, I wonder how broken the Army promotion system is. I’m not the best thing going, but I’ve gone where I’ve been told, served in The Old Guard and as a Recruiter, and am currently on Drill Sergeant orders, and put my Soldiers first. Just as importantly, I practice the Army Values in my daily life. You know…obeying traffic laws and not touching children in their “special places”. How in the hell are shitbags like this guy and a few other former senior NCOs I know selected for advanced ranks while some of my buddies and I continue to bust our asses as E-6’s while wondering if the Army will consider us “stagnant” and QSP us?
From your viewpoint, yes, he does look like an asshole, but from some naive kid’s perspective, he looks almost harmless.
I know you won’t believe me when I say this, but he has a vaguely seductive stare at the camera. I’m sure he’s milked it more than once, too.
No one has addressed the real question:
Does this crapazoid fleshpot have to register as a sex offender wherever he lives after he leaves the Army?
I should think that would be a requirement.
And he will still be eligible for Social Security retirement income, won’t he? That has nothing to do with military service.
Based on the crime to which he pleaded, Ex-PH2, I’m reasonably certain he will be required to register. I’m also reasonably certain he’s now a convicted felon – and thus unable to possess or own firearms, work in the financial industry, and will have serious trouble in getting employment in many other fields as well. He can almost certainly kiss any prospects for Federal, Federal contractor, or state/local government employment goodbye.
You’re correct about Social Security. Unless he’s incarcerated for a different reason when he becomes eligible to receive Social Security, a court-martial conviction (even for sex offenses) to my knowledge has no effect on eligibility.
It also looks like he’ll be eligible for internment in National Cemeteries and for many other VA bennies, since (as Alberich pointed out in a comment above) regs preclude an admin OTH discharge due to his court-martial conviction since the court-martial could have given him a BCD or DD but did not.
Ex-PH2……you beat me to it by a couple of hours. I too would like to know if he has to register with LE the rest of his life where ever he lives. In most states, failure to do that is a direct and immediate trip to prison, no second chances.
My first thought was “oh, so pedo sexing is conduct becoming an NCO in the AF?”
Bust the guy down to NCO and it seems to say “oh well, this guy’s still good enough for that rank”.
Huh. Looked at the pic and read the thing again. He’s Army? Why’s Army doing Spacehead stuff? I thought the AF owned that.
The new Fag in charge must like him.
Hum..a sex offender still allowed to serve in the Military is just as STUPID AS ALLOWING BERNATH to PRACTICE LAW WITHOUT A LICENSE…