Kevin Benderman is going to face a court-martial. Background posts on Sgt. Benderman are here and here.
If you can spare any financial support for Sgt. Benderman's defense, please consider donating here. If not, please consider passing along the word of his situation and sending emails of support and encouragement to the Bendermans.Sergeant Kevin Benderman, 40, missed his unit’s deployment flight last month after giving his commanders notice that he planned to seek a discharge as a conscientious objector. Benderman said he had become opposed to war after serving in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[...]
Benderman will be tried by a general court-martial – the most serious form of court-martial – on charges of desertion and missing movement. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison, reduction in rank to private and a dishonourable discharge.
No trial date has been set.
Scotsman article
Soldiers who have performed acts of great cruelty, torture and murder of innocent Iraqi civilians are getting off with much less severe penalties. Some get nothing at all. (Update on the marine who was caught on video killing an injured man in a Falluja mosque is here. And the video here.)
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