Hey Jag, guess the Army didn't turn a blind eye to these infractions.....I can't post a link because it came from the Post CG in an e-mail. Not only did the Army punish these troops, they make sure everyone knows their name!
Guilty of Rape
Sgt. 1st Class Felix Gonzalez Jr., Company C, 554th Engineer Battalion, was convicted March 1, of one count of rape. In addition, pursuant to his pleas of guilty, the court found Gonzalez guilty of indecent assault, assault consummated by a battery and maltreatment. A military judge sentenced Gonzalez to reduction to the grade of E1, confinement for ten years and a dishonorable discharge.
An eighteen year veteran, Gonzalez was found guilty of raping a 17-year-old twice, sexually assaulting a woman who was his fiancée at the time, physically assaulting the wife of a Soldier and maltreating one of his female Soldiers while he was her platoon sergeant. The first three incidents occurred at Fort Leonard Wood in 2002 and 2003. The last incident occurred in Korea in 2005.
Aggravated assault
Pvt. Kenneth Carey Jr., Company F, 35th Engineer Battalion, pled guilty during a special court-martial, March 2. Carey was convicted of one count of provoking words and gestures and one count of aggravated assault. A military judge sentenced Carey to reduction to the grade of E1, forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay for eight months, confinement for six months and a bad conduct discharge.
In his eighth week of Advanced Individual Training, Carey was involved in a verbal altercation in which he leaned into the face of a fellow Soldier in training and used provoking language. He then struck the Soldier twice in the face with the butt stock of his M16, causing deep cuts and bruising above the Soldier's eye and on the side of his head.
At the announcement of the sentence, the military judge reduced Carey's sentence from eight months to only six months because of evidence that noncommissioned officers from another company had repeatedly ridiculed Carey in front of other Soldiers. An investigation is pending into the allegations of those NCOs' misconduct.
Violation of post regulations
Staff Sgt. Travis Dauer, Company D, 82nd Chemical Battalion, was convicted during a general court-martial, Feb. 26, of four counts of violating Fort Leonard Wood Regulation 350-6 and one count of attempted obstruction of justice. A military judge sentenced Dauer to reduction to the grade of E1, confinement for two years, and a bad-conduct discharge.
A six-year veteran and a former noncommissioned officer of the year for the Chemical Corps, Dauer assumed drill sergeant duties in Co. D, June 2006. He was accused of having had sex with four different trainees and inappropriately fraternized with them between July and November 2006. He was a drill sergeant for all of the trainees involved, and they were assigned to his basic training company. He was also the platoon sergeant for two of them. All four of the trainees were in Co. D during one of Dauer's first two cycles of training as a drill sergeant.
Dauer's misconduct with female Soldiers in training occurred in a variety of locations, a unit supply room, the unit laundry room, his truck, a hospital room, a hotel room and his home. Furthermore, Dauer's misconduct continued after being suspended from duties in the wake of the investigation into his criminal activity, after charges were read to him and after he was arraigned on charges before a military judge.
His attempted obstruction of justice was for trying to delete e-mails off of one of the trainee's accounts after the investigation had begun.
ROT below will be in Guidon 29 March
Convicted of adultery
Staff Sgt. Willie Myles, Company A, 84th Chemical Battalion, pursuant to his pleas of guilty, was convicted by a special court-martial March 19. Myles was convicted of four counts of violating Fort Leonard Wood Regulation 350-6, one count of adultery, one count of dereliction of duty, one count of disobeying a commissioned officer and one count of false official statement.
A military judge sentenced Myles to reduction to the grade of E-3, confinement for seven months and a bad-conduct discharge.
In May 2006, during his 20th month as a drill sergeant in Co. A, 82nd Chemical Battalion, Myles began a personal relationship with a trainee in violation of Fort Leonard Wood Regulation 350-6. The trainee was a Soldier in Myles's company. In June and July, Myles, who was married, had sex with the trainee, twice in the barracks while he was on duty and once at a hotel off-post. On one occasion in the barracks, he had another trainee who was on fireguard duty serve as a look-out so he wouldn't get caught; on the other occasion, he disarmed the alarm system and diverted the fireguards who were on duty in order to meet privately with the trainee. The judge also convicted Myles for continuing to contact the trainee after his commander gave him a no contact order and for lying to the investigating officer about his relationship with the trainee.
