Hurtful
Uh oh. Turns out Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp doesn’t want to talk to TNR. Either that or, since the GI-bashing fantabulist has been sent back to his unit, he’s too busy trying to unwedge his shorts to make a phone call. Col. Steve Boylan:
His commands investigation is complete. At this time, there is no formal what we call Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) actions being taken. However, there are other Administrative actions or what we call Non-Judicial Punishment that can be taken if the command deems appropriate. These are again administrative in nature and as such are not releasable to the public by law.
We are not stonewalling anyone. There are official statements that are out there are on the record from several of us and nothing has changed.
We are not preventing him from speaking to TNR or anyone. He has full access to the Morale Welfare and Recreation phones that all the other members of the unit are free to use. It is my understanding that he has been informed of the requests to speak to various members of the media, both traditional and non-traditional and has declined. That is his right.
We will not nor can we force a Soldier to talk to the media or his family or anyone really for that matter in these types of issues.
We fully understand the issues on this. What everyone must understand is that we will not breach the rights of the Soldier and this is where this is at this point.
Don’t worry, TNR. I’m sure once he is out of his obligations to the Army and the United States, out of that hell that is a forward-deployed Army unit he’s just betrayed, Beauchamp will have plenty to say. I sense a tell-all bestseller and a book tour coming on.
Prior:
Jayson Beauchamp, United States (Winter) Army
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:34 pm on Saturday, August 11, 2007
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August 11th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I sense a tell-all bestseller and a book tour coming on.
Yeah boy. But for the moment, Private B appears to know when to stop digging.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
“…he’s too busy trying to unwedge his shorts to make a phone call.”
BUAWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
August 11th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
More to the point…..
TNR is continuing their spin doctoring, but COL Boylan is spot on. There’s nothing stopping him from contacting anyone. If Beauchamp were truly the genius he claims to be (and had a set of balls to match his ego), he’d ask the unit PAO to coordinate for him, to keep things above board. That would cover him with his chain of command.
Nonetheless, I’m with you, Jules. He’s staying quiet to build up the suspense, so that when he out-processes, he can publish an instant best seller, make scads of cash, and finally get all that adoration that he craves so badly. It’ll be something like Catch 22, only with Bradleys instead of B17s.
However, I’m betting that Author Boy will leave the Army as he came in….as a private, at most a PFC. Which would be an amazing accomplishment in this day and age, when making Spec4 after a 4 year tour is virtually certain.
August 12th, 2007 at 1:59 am
His little tell-all will have to compete with those who haven’t tarnished their reputations. It is one aspect of the bloggers spending time in theater I’ve thought of several times: they will have a story to tell, and the creds to back it up. They, and the more literary among the troops, will swamp anything this pathetic product will manage to author.
What a mess he’s made of his young life. Someone ought to have taught him something about consequences–intended and otherwise.
August 12th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Yep, a tell-all tour sounds about right. But TNR’s blaming it on Army obstructionism in their “update” to the affair takes the cake!
August 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
saltydog: “Jarhead II”
August 12th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Richard,
Heh. You got that right.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:42 am
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