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| Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty, receive health care after prison release |
| 2017-05-15 |
| [Detroit Free Press] WASHINGTON -- Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier and convicted national security secret leaker, will remain an active-duty, unpaid soldier, eligible for health care and other benefits, following her scheduled release May 17 from military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to the Army. Manning entered prison as a man named Bradley. Manning changed her name, identified as a woman and received hormone treatment while incarcerated. Her sentence was commuted in the final days of the Obama administration, a move that infuriated some in the military and President Trump. While Manning’s court-martial conviction remains under appeal, she will remain a private in the Army, said Dave Foster, an Army spokesman. As an active duty soldier, Manning will continue to receive health care and have access to commissaries and military exchanges, but she will not be paid. "Pvt. Manning is statutorily entitled to medical care while on excess leave in an active duty status, pending final appellate review," Foster said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 If Tryvon Martin can get a posthumous degree in aerospace engineering... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-15 12:38 |
| #7 WTF |
| Posted by: newc 2017-05-15 12:15 |
| #6 Unpaid active duty...and do military hospitals provide sex change hormone support, or will the current refill be the last? All sorts of President Obama's pen & phone orders have been quietly reversed while the left was hyperventilating about the latest Trump tweet. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-15 10:18 |
| #5 What a fuckin disgrace.x |
| Posted by: chris 2017-05-15 09:59 |
| #4 Is a pink beret standard issue now? |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-05-15 08:59 |
| #3 I can hardly wait for the book deal... |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-05-15 08:24 |
| #2 So Obama pardoned a leaker who was in the military... But Assange who isn't even American needs to be extradited for spying?!? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-05-15 07:00 |
| #1 The likely goal is to no doubt one day make this person Sergeant Major of The Army (SMA). Evil and debauchery has surely been elevated to entirely new levels. And to the poor old veteran waiting in line for treatment, what is he told ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-05-15 06:55 |