Rep. Coffman guilty of violating military code

Something the Dog Said wrote: My understanding is that he is still in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Coffman has not been in the Army or Army Reserve for quite sometime. That is where he started. He ended up retiring from the USMC Reserve

In 1972, Coffman enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was assigned to a mechanized infantry battalion. The following year, he earned a high school diploma through an Army program. Leaving active duty for the U.S. Army Reserve in 1974, he entered the University of Colorado, graduating in 1979. He also studied at Vaishnav College in Chennai, India, and the University of Veracruz in Mexico for a year. Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, Coffman transferred from the Army Reserve to the United States Marine Corps in 1979, becoming an infantry officer. In 1983, he transferred from active duty to the Marine Reserves, serving until 1994. In 1983, he created an Aurora, Colorado-based property management firm, serving as senior shareholder until 2000

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

neptunechimney wrote: I do not think the UCMJ applies to retired.

FEI (for everyone's information)

"Retired members of the uniformed services who are entitled to retirement pay are also subject to the UCMJ, as are retired reservists who are receiving hospital care in the VA system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Co ... ry_Justice

I'm not ex-military or really familiar with the UCMJ, so I don't know or understand the finer details or how this comment by Coffman would actually be interpreted.

When a member retires with less than 30 they go into inactive reserve to complete the 30 years total. At the end of the 30 we go onto the retired list. As for how this would be interpreted, they would have to recall him to active duty to do anything, and this would be the exception not the rule

Something the Dog Said wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote: He just said what 60%+/- of Americans feel.
Should 'nt apologize at all.

So he should be free from adhering to the oath that he swore as a military officer?

Hasn't been in the military for quite sometime. What is it I hear all the time. Your fishing for the big one and got nothing.

Something the Dog Said wrote:

neptunechimney wrote:

Something the Dog Said wrote: Coffman in his "apology" for "misspeaking" refers to himself in the present tense as a Marine, so it appears that the military code does apply.

It appears that your lack of knowledge about Marines is vast. Ever hear the phrase "Once a Marine, always a Marine"?

So then the military code does apply. Semper Fi

keep fishing

Sure, call him anti-American but don't be surprised when the public doesn't like it and calls you on it. He got away with it, he got his sound bite and his name out there while he's campaigning and coughed up a BS apology so he can say later that he never apologized. He didn't offer up solutions, he just took an opportunity to get in a dig at the President. The only thing being a Marine has to do with it is that their proud name is being muddied by this politician who said something to pander to his base, in other words, politics.

I honor his service, but I have little respect for his behavior.

Soulshiner wrote: Sure, call him anti-American but don't be surprised when the public doesn't like it and calls you on it. He got away with it, he got his sound bite and his name out there while he's campaigning and coughed up a BS apology so he can say later that he never apologized. He didn't offer up solutions, he just took an opportunity to get in a dig at the President. The only thing being a Marine has to do with it is that their proud name is being muddied by this politician who said something to pander to his base, in other words, politics.

I honor his service, but I have little respect for his behavior.

SS I would be willing to bet not awhole lot of folks out there even know which service he was in, and I will promise you he is only stating what a lot of the military is thinking but will not say. I even make sure my son does not say anything against the President. He is active duty and I remind him all the time of the UCMJ. I am retired though, as for if or if not an American for me no longer an issue, but what I do have an issue with, and this is any President, and no I don't like romnut either, is when they take credit for things they actually had nothing to do with the items.

So with no factual reason he asserts the President is not an American? I don't care about the code...trying to rehash the whole idiotic birther issue just makes him look like a fringe moron.

~I don't know if Coffman's mother was a dog...I don't know that...but I know in his heart, he's a son of a bitch~ see...stupid comment.

rofllol

The fact is BO has NO heart for America, and never has, he only wants' to push his agenda and he is smart enough to know to take it slow, then Bam.

navycpo7 wrote:

Something the Dog Said wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote: He just said what 60%+/- of Americans feel.
Should 'nt apologize at all.

So he should be free from adhering to the oath that he swore as a military officer?

Hasn't been in the military for quite sometime. What is it I hear all the time. Your fishing for the big one and got nothing.

Mike Coffman returned to active duty in the Marine Corps in 2005 took a leave of absence from his elected post in 2006 to do a tour in the Green Zone as part of the support of the Independent Electoral commission. His biography does not mention if and when he resigned from military service. He has been in the military for quite sometime. At least got a nibble.