Why service members charged in the Capitol riot are staying in uniform -- for now

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Why service members charged in the Capitol riot are staying in uniform — for now

By Alex Horton
May 22, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Commanders are waiting for legal proceedings at the Justice Department before they make administrative decisions for charged troops, defense officials have said.

At least five service members face federal charges for allegedly participating: an active-duty Marine Corps officer who was arrested last week, two part-time soldiers in the Army Reserve and two in the National Guard.

Their changes include assaulting federal police, violent entry and disorderly conduct at the Capitol.

“The harm is against the civilian government. The civilian government should be prosecuting it,” said Rachel E. VanLandingham, a former Air Force lawyer and president of the National Institute of Military Justice, a nonprofit focused on military law issues.

However, she said, waiting for civilian prosecution does not preclude the military from taking other action in the meantime.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/05/22/military-capitol-riot/

[Captain Zero]

1. The harm is against their oath to the Constitution

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[csziggy]

4. Apparently that oath no longer means anything

Or these service people would already be up for courts martial.

[ShazamIam]

2. I have read that even retired officers can be Court Martialed. This is about the actives who

participated but there were also retired and then all those retired officers who signed that letter from Jack Meeoff.

[ripcord]

3. They probably have to wait for the civilian proceeding

Because even these people are innocent until proven guilty.

[soothsayer]

5. Yeah but at least sideline them somehow. KP duty or something where they can't be dangerous traitors

Well I guess they could poison the troops there.

Idk.