Army Leadership Omitted From Prosecution

According to the February 2014 congressional testimony, one Major General committed fraud; 18 full Colonels, 11 Lieutenant Colonels and dozens of other mid-level and Junior Officers also potentially committed fraud under the Recruiting Assistance Program. During the hearing Senator McCaskill confronted National Guard and Army leadership regarding the omission of prosecution towards officers and senior leadership:

“Senator McCaskill– To your knowledge, have any of them gone to prison?

General Quantock– No, ma’am. To my knowledge, none have gone to prison.

Senator McCaskill– Have any of them lost benefits, to your knowledge?

General Quantock– No, ma’am, not to my knowledge.

Senator McCaskill– Have any of them been forced to resign from their service?

General Quontock– I would have to take that one for the record, ma’am.”

02 February 2014 FCO Hearing Transcript Page 27.

It is clear that only enlisted soldiers have been investigated and or prosecuted in an evident move by the National Guard and US Army leadership to transfer blame to lower enlisted personnel.

This is further exacerbated by the fact that the entire Recruiting Assistance Program was later deemed to be illegally acquired by the military as it was granted under a sole sourced award to Docupak. However, even though the program was illegally procured, mismanaged and violated Anti Deficiency Act guidelines no leadership has been reprimanded held accountable or questioned for their involvement or implementation of the program. This shows that leadership has used enlisted soldiers to mask their actions and thwart prosecution.   If the leadership truly sought justice all soldiers, regardless of rank should be held accountable for either participating in the program or for mismanaging a program in which they claim wide spread fraud occurred.

It is evident that the leadership will continue to use soldiers and punish soldiers regardless of whether or not they conducted illegal activity in an effort to direct congress away from their own actions and deficiencies.

Soldiers prosecuted on a never before distributed handbook

Soldiers are being prosecuted for their participation in the Recruiting Assistance Program based on a handbook that CID claims they received that outlined the Do’s and Don’ts of the program.

In the prosecuted soldiers’ discovery is a never before seen handbook listed as Version 2.0. We have further discrepancies of the Version 2 handbook being used for prosecution and how it differs from the widely distributed Version 1.5 handbook however this blog focuses on the fact that no handbook was ever distributed.

In 2011 a Recruiting Assistant named David Remsberg sued Docupak