Good Morning.
We can start right on the border this morning. Attitude is everything, and here is what Oregon National Guardsman thinks about migrants at the border.
An Oregon Army National Guard soldier will be disciplined after he wrote on a Facebook fundraiser for immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border that "they're lucky we aren't executing them.â€
Now, he will face punishment from his command, according to Guard officials.
Screenshots of the comments were captured and first reported by the Oregonian Thursday.
The Guardsman was reportedly Pfc. Gerod Martin, a military police officer serving in the National Guard since December 2013, Maj. Stephen Bomar, a spokesman for the Oregon Military Department, told the Oregonian.
“We started looking at it and were trying to decide if someone had hacked his account,†Bomar told local news station KATU. However, Martin later admitted to posting the comment himself.
The Oregon National Guard was made aware of the post when social media users saw Martin was dressed in a military uniform in his profile pictures and reported him to the organization.
“If you have a social media account that is affiliated with the military in any way shape or form, like it has a patch or says Army or Air Force ... then you fall under the rules of the Uniform Code of Military Justice,†Bomar said. “This was a clear violation in uniform to say anything like that, or anything political because we enforce the policies of our politicians.â€
But of course, note that it's a violation of POLICY....they're not stating that there was anything wrong with that point of view. If only one person actually says it, how many more think it?
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