Military Commander & the Law

Sunday, July 18th, 2010
The Military Commander and the Law
Updated 2008 to 2009
Full Document 660 pages
SAG-2010
(Chuck Luther)


LEGAL ISSUES SPECIFIC TO THE COMMANDER
QUALITY FORCE MANAGEMENT
NONJUDICIAL PUNISHMENT UNDER ARTICLE 15
ADMINISTRATIVE SEPARATION FROM THE AIR FORCE
CRIMINAL AND MILITARY JUSTICE
PERSONNEL ISSUES FOR THE COMMANDER – GENERALLY
PERSONNEL ISSUES FOR THE COMMANDER – MILITARY MEMBERS
PERSONNEL ISSUES FOR THE COMMANDER – FAMILY & NEXT OF KIN
THE AIR FORCE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
CIVIL LAW RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL
CIVIL LAW ISSUES FOR THE COMMANDER
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US Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Dahr Jamail

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 16 (IPS) - According to a soldiers' advocacy group at Fort Hood, the US base where an army psychiatrist has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 in a Nov. 5 rampage, the official suicide figures provided by the Army are "definitely" too low.
Chuck Luther served 12 years in the military and is a veteran of two deployments to Iraq, where he was a reconnaissance scout in… Read More

A Message to President Barack Obama

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Chuck Luther of Disposable Warriors, FT Hood Texas, with a message for President Obama to mark Thanksgiving on November 27th, 2009. Talk Nation Radio for November 26, 2009. (Produced by Dori Smith)

In his Thanksgiving message President Barack Obama said it was a time to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love. He was referring to the more than 5100 US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. We are focusing on a different statistic, the soldier who feels overwhelmed by war, who may have sustained invisible wounds, and so commits suicide. Suicide is often an act of irrational desire for change,… Read More

Booted for Misconduct : Sgt Adam Boyle

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010


PTSD Victim Booted for "Misconduct"
Thursday 08 January 2009
by : Kelly Kennedy


After serving two tours in Iraq, tours filled with killing enemy combatants and watching close friends die, Sgt Adam Boyle, 27 returned home expecting the Army to take care of him. Instead, service member advocates and Boyle's mother say his chain of command in the 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion at Fort Bragg, N.C., worked to end his military career at the first sign of… Read More

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