Navy Sailor Retained after Positive Urinalysis for Prescribed Medication
A Navy Sailor with 8-years of service tested positive for oxycodone after being prescribed and taking hydrocodone after surgery. He went before the Mast, was reduced one rank, and placed on restriction and extra duty for 45-days. Due to “Big Navy” policy to process all positive urinalysis for administrative separation, and given his time in ser…
Army Reserve Major (P) and Army Civilian Security Clearance Revocation
The Officer became addicted to opioids after three successive serious injuries over the course of two years. A Second Lieutenant in the Major’s Army civilian office suspected he was “snorting cocaine” at his desk during lunch. Army CID investigated and determined that the Major was taking unprescribed opioids (prescribed but in dosages differ…
Navy Sailor’s General Discharge and Reenlistment Code Upgraded
A former Navy Sailor was discharged after an administrative separation board that recommended the Sailor be discharged with a General discharge after testing positive on a urinalysis after accidentally ingesting his wife’s ADHD medication. The ADSEP board found that his service up to the positive urinalysis was honorable and had no incidences of…
Army Reserve Colonel Avoids Reprimand and Grade Determination Review Board
An Army AGR Colonel was investigated for allegations of unfair treatment of subordinates and that his actions contributed to a toxic work environment during the command’s transition back from full-time telework. Complainants alleged the Colonel was unfair in his assessment of their requests to remain on full-time telework or their medical request…
Navy Sailor’s Other Than Honorable Discharge Upgraded
A former Army Soldier was discharged in 1986 with an other than honorable characterization after attacking a foreign civilian during a psychotic event. Despite 6-months of inpatient treatment for schizophrenia after the incident, the Army preferred charges for the attack. On the advice of and through counsel and despite of his debilitated mental st…
Army Soldier Referred to IDES after 15-years
A former Army Soldier was discharged in 2006 for a “personality disorder” after suffering panic attacks while in theater and after being forcibly sodomized three times. MNB Meridian Law attorneys successfully that the Soldier files be referred to the Army Integrated Disability Evaluation System to determine whether he should have received a dis…
Navy Sailor General Discharge Upgraded to HONORABLE
A former Navy corpsman was discharged in 2014 after an “attention getting” incident related to the significant mental health issues the Sailor was facing. Despite three years of 4.0 evaluations, and no counseling, reprimands or non-judicial punishment, the Navy discharged the Sailor with a general discharge with an honorable characterization pu…
Army Soldier Facing Article 15 for Posting Publicly Available Information
An Army Specialist posted a newspaper article on social media, without commenting, about a fellow Soldier arrested for soliciting sex with a minor. The Specialist’s First Sergeant threatened him with non-judicial punishment (Article 15), loss of liberty, extra duty and denied repeated requests for leave due to the Specialist “bullying” the ar…
Army Soldier Facing a AR 635-200 Chapter 14-12 Elimination
The Soldier, a former US Marine and current Army Specialist, was facing administrative elimination, for a pattern of misconduct that included falling asleep during a platoon sergeant’s meeting, punching a hole in the wall of his barrack’s room, wearing athletic socks with a logo, being absent (for 30 minutes) from his appointed place of duty, a…
Army Officer Receives $120,000+ in Back Retired Pay
An Army National Guard officer retired from active duty at a lower paygrade than the grade he was wearing due to the then-existing statutory authority. After nearly 15-years applying to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records, MNB Law Attorneys successfully argued the correct statutory interpretation and the officer received more than $12…
Army Warrant Officer Receives Unanimous Decision from the ABCMR
Army Warrant Officer was accused of a sexual assault in a restaurant restroom. Army Criminal Investigation Division conducted a clumsy and partial investigation that substantiated the allegations against the Warrant Officer. As a result, the Warrant Officer was issued a Memorandum of Reprimand and had his security clearance suspended, which resulte…
Army Paralegal (27D) Proposed Withdrawal of AR 27-1 Certification
The Soldier, an Army paralegal, received a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand. Pursuant to Army Regulation 27-1, the paralegal was de-certified. MNB Law Attorneys successfully argued the misconduct was unrelated to his status as a paralegal and did not involve conduct of moral turpitude or violence. The Judge Advocate General (TJAG) agreed and…
U.S Public Health Service Officer Faces Board of Inquiry
A USPHS commissioned officer was notified of an administrative separation hearing after eight months of investigation. The Physician was the first in recent memory to be subject to a Board of Inquiry. MNB Law Attorneys were able to successfully argue the officer did not knowingly falsify government records and negotiated the officer’s exit from t…
Former Air Force Airman Punished because of Relationship
An Air Force Security Forces Airman received a General (under honorable conditions) discharge after being implicated through the “rumor mill” as having been a “friend with benefits” to the Airman arrested for leading a drug trafficking ring from within the base’s Security Forces office. MNB Attorneys successfully argued to the Air Force D…
Former US Marine Sergeant
A Reserve Marine Sergeant voluntarily mobilized for a one-year rotation to Afghanistan and was partially implicated in a “red striping” hazing incident, the investigation of which was badly completed. The Marine initially received non-judicial punishment and was reduced in rank to Corporal for leadership failures because of the hazing, but not…
Former Air Force Staff Sergeant Affected by Competing Processes
An Air Force Staff Sergeant was in the initial stages of a Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) to determine if he was medically fit for further military service, when he was identified for removal from the Air Force on a Quality Force Review Board (QFRB). The Staff Sergeant was discharged with an Honorable discharge under the QFRB process and the MEB wa…
Former Army Staff Sergeant and a Poor Line of Duty Investigation
An Army Staff Sergeant was involved in a catastrophic motorcycle accident and was left in a significant reduced cognitive state requiring 24-hour in-home nursing care for the remainder of the Soldier’s life. After a poor line of duty investigation, the Soldier’s command determined the Soldier’s accident was Not in the Line of Duty (NLOD) –…
Former Army Private with Traumatic Brain Injury
An Army Specialist had a significant history of non-combat-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI). A non-commissioned officer on the floor smelled marijuana and then attempted to prevent the Soldier from driving away from the barracks. After a 30 m.p.h. “high speed chase” pursued by 11 military and 1 civilian police vehicles, the Soldier was pu…
Former Army Reserve Major Pending Medical Evaluation Board
In 1985, the Major was exposed to radiation from a leaking microwave transmitter. The Officer developed endocrinological disorders and gained more than 100 pounds. He was treated by Army and civilian medical providers over the course of his active and reserve duty statuses, but later discharged due to his weight gain and other factors while pending…
Former Army Specialist and Medical Evaluation Board
An Army Specialist had a significant history of mental illness including short-term hospitalizations for schizophrenia. The command initiated a Medical Evaluation Board. After the Soldier was found smoking “spice” in the barracks stairwell, Army Criminal Investigation Division and command investigators determined, despite the mental health hist…
Army Reserve Captain with a Referred Officer Evaluation Report
A Captain was mobilized for 179-days to support an Army command as an intelligence officer. However, the Captain and his GS-12 supervisor did not see eye-to-eye. As a result, the civilian GS-12 supervisor accused the Captain: of being an “infiltrator” (due to confusion about a recent name change); removing classified material (textbooks) from a…
Former Army Specialist with PTSD and “Limited Use”
In March 2003, an Army Specialist suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after participating in the first and only post-9/11 combat parachute jump, into Iraq. Shortly after his return he started to self-medicate with marijuana. He self-reported his PTSD and after pre-treatment urinalysis, the command improperly used the limited-use inf…
Navy Petty Officer Third Class Discharge Upgraded
A former Navy Petty Officer was propositioned by a young woman who, as was later discovered, was mentally incompetent. However, the subsequent investigation revealed that the young woman’s treating medical providers and parents were unable to determine the extent of her mental incapacity. The Navy prosecutors declined to prosecute and local Adult…
Army (Reserve) First Lieutenant Misconduct Filed in the Restricted File
In 2014, an Army First Lieutenant (1LT), married to another Army 1LT (assigned to an OCONUS duty station), engaged in an inappropriate (non-sexual but socially intimate) relationship with the wife of a fellow Army Officer. The 1LT-wife reported her husband and the 1LT-husband was issued a Memorandum of Reprimand (GOMOR) and was honorably discharged…
Army (AGR) Lieutenant Colonel Completely Exonerated
In 2014, an Army Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) ran afoul of his immediate commander resulting in multiple allegations that he had been disrespectful to the commander and another military service senior officer and failed to manage his command appropriately. The allegations resulted in a Memorandum of Reprimand, relief from command, removal from a promot…
Former Navy Seaman from Korean War with PTSD
In 1953, while aboard ship, a former Navy Seaman with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from a motor vehicle accident was repeatedly raped by his first line supervisor. The Sailor admitted to heroin use to deal with the stress of the rapes and developed what we now know to be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He was administratively separated and d…
Successful Titling Removal
An officer was accused of committing travel fraud after he provided what he thought was an official weigh station weight ticket. At the weigh station, an unauthorized person provided a blank weigh ticket and told the officer to complete the weigh ticket on their own. The officer reported this irregularity to the travel office processing the travel…
