Military Uses Trumped Up Charges to Boot Out Service Member Assumed to be Gay
Reporter Julie Weisberg has a great story up on PageOneQ today about SLDN client Chris Mastromarino, a member of the military's prestigious Old Guard.
Mastromarino, who had a stellar service record and was recommended for the Guard by his previous command, is now being targeted for dismissal after rumors began circulating that he is gay. Rather than go after him under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," however, his command brought trumped up criminal charges - including an assault charge based on a game of 'punch bug' - to try and drum him out of the service.
Now, Chris's future is in the hands of a new Guard commander, who has the choice of refusing to sign off on the charade of a trial that brought about the conviction or of validating an anti-gay fishing expedition that could not only end Mastromarino's military career, but threaten his future civilian opportunities, too.
(Stay tuned here at Frontlines for updates on what Mastromarino's command decides to do. As Weisberg notes in her story, "Mastromarino's command has already begun the process of administratively removing him from the Army -- a process that could be completed as soon as tomorrow and began the day after his court martial.")
You can read Julie's full investigative report online at PageOneQ. And surf over to Bilerico.com for more coverage, too.
- Steve RallsLabels: in the news, old guard, other blogs, pageoneq
08-03-07
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Comments for this entry are closed.Anonymous on December 31, 1969 at 02.00 pm
If you are tuff and you have a low voice<BR>you cannot be omosex (many times homosex do have a low voice) <BR><BR>If you are kind<BR>you have a soft voice and you behave with humanity, you most be a homosex.<BR>In the army you cannot be kind to anyone<BR>probabilly only who allowe is brain wash and do not have<BR>humanity can make career.<BR>probabilly there might be no space for humanity if you want to remain in the army, all they might have to look alike.<BR>This might be the probable real reasons to the metter.<BR>The usual rules of several lobbie is that there cannot be people with personality everyone has to be standarized.<BR>That is probabilly why Mastromarino had the honor of the court martial,<BR>The court martial gave to Mastromarino the chance of getting out of a probable negative experience because he might have had thechance of been a martir for part of the country which still believe in humanity.<BR>Before all, a soldier has to be primarelly human<BR>in his duty.<BR>United States of America has been founded with the phrase: “IN GOD WE TRUST”<BR>The US Army has to stand on human bases acording<BR>to the most important article of the USA constitution<BR>wich in GOD remitt the future of the country.<BR><BR>WE READ ON THE WEB:<BR>THERE IS NO FAMILY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DENTIST MASTROMARINO AND CHRIS FAMILY.<BR>HOPE THERE IS A MEDIOEVAL<BR>PERSECUTION TO FAMILY NAMES.
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