{"id":13844,"date":"2012-04-09T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:40:19","slug":"military-recommends-dismissal-for-marine-who-mocked-pres-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13844","title":{"rendered":"Military Recommends Dismissal For Marine Who Mocked Pres. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. &#8212; A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president&#8217;s face on a<em> &#8220;Jackass&#8221;<\/em> movie poster.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps administrative board said after a daylong hearing late Thursday at Camp Pendleton that <strong>Sgt. Gary Stein<\/strong> has committed misconduct and should be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The board also recommended that Stein be given an other-than-honorable discharge. That would mean Stein would lose his benefits and would not be allowed on any military base.<\/p>\n<p>The board&#8217;s recommendations go to a general who will either accept or deny them. If the general disagrees with the board, the case could go to the secretary of the Navy.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stein&#8217;s<\/strong> lawyers argued that the 9-year Marine, whose service was to end in four months, was expressing his personal views and exercising his First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. &#8212; A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president&#8217;s face on a &#8220;Jackass&#8221; movie poster. The Marine Corps administrative board said after a daylong hearing late Thursday at Camp Pendleton that Sgt. Gary Stein has committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}