Tag: MOH Ellis Weicht and Robert Hartsock

Military December 07, 2018

Media Availability With Secretary Mattis While En Route to Ottawa, Dec. 5, 2018
 
 
 
 
By Oriana Pawlyk: Marine Corps Identifies Pilot Killed in Midair Collision Off Japan
 
 
 
 
The Associated Press: Pearl Harbor Re-Burials Across the US Give Families Closure
 
 
 
 
One bullet each.
By Courtney Mabeus: Hearings Postponed for SEALs, Marines Charged in Green Beret’s Death
Charge sheets accuse the special operators of breaking into Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar’s bedroom in Bamako, Mali, while he was sleeping, restraining him with duct tape and strangling him by placing him in a chokehold. In addition to murder, they have also been charged with involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, hazing and burglary.

Navy Region Mid-Atlantic Commander Adm. Charles Rock decided last month to go forward with the charges after he was provided a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report into the death. The purpose of the Article 32 hearings is to consider the charges and to make recommendations on them.

If convicted, all four could face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.