Michael New - Mercenary... or American Soldier
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What happened?
On October 10, 1995, the 1/15 Battalion of the 3rd infantry Division of the U.S. Army came to attention at 0900 in Schweinfurt, Germany. All but one of the 550 soldiers were wearing a sky-blue baseball-style cap with a United Nations insignia on the front. One was wearing the olive-drab flat cap that is authorized to be worn with the Battle Dress Uniform. With this simple act of disobeying a direct order, Spc. 4 Michael New set the stage for a legal battle that has profound implications for the future of American soldiers into service of the United Nations without the constitutional permission of Congress.
Update January 2008
Most of you knew about former Army Specialist Michael New back when he defied President Bill Clinton's direct (and illegal) order to wear a baby-blue United Nations beret, and refused to serve under foreign officers in the United Nations military operations in Macedonia, back in 1995.
Most of you followed the case through twelve long (and expensive) years of legal battles in which:
- Spc. New was not allowed to present ANY evidence in his own defense at the court-martial in Germany;
- the Army Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that evidence is no longer a fundamental element of the Defense;
- the Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces upheld that outrageous decision, and
- the US Supreme Court refused to touch it.
Continued....
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