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USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The Army has rejected an appeal to return medals for valor to retired Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a Special Forces soldier former President Donald Trump pardoned for alleged murder in Afghanistan. It was one of three high-profile cases in which Trump interceded on behalf of troops accused of war crimes. The decision regarding Golsteyn, reached last June, was not announced by the Army in Trump's final months as president but is revealed in documents released to USA TODAY. The Army also denied Golsteyn's request to restore his Special Forces tab, marking his service as a...

Major plea deal debate in Navy medic death probe case ABC 10News and last updated 2021-03-09 21:31:09-05 TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (KGTV) - In a move that the prosecutors said they had never seen before, a plea agreement was halted this week inside a courthouse on the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base, located northeast of San Diego. “We were just disgusted with a plea agreement that we did not agree upon,” said Jose De Leon, the father of fallen corpsman HM3 Michael Vincent De Leon. Jose De Leon and wife Sandra De Leon said that last week they fought to stop the plea deal for HM1 ...

Ben Finley Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. — A U.S. Navy SEAL has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hazing death of a U.S. Army Green Beret while the men served together in Africa. The SEAL's attorney said he plans to appeal the punishment. Tony DeDolph received the sentence Saturday from a jury of fellow service members at a Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, the Navy said in a statement Monday. He had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and related counts Jan. 14. DeDolph had placed Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar into a martial-arts-style chokehold to try to make h...

Navy SEAL gets 10 years in strangulation death of Army Green Beret staff sergeant January 25 Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar was found dead of strangulation on June 4, 2017, in housing he shared with other special operations forces personnel in Bamako, Mali. (Army) A Navy SEAL who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the hazing death of a Green Beret staff sergeant while deployed to Africa has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, forfeiture of pay, reduction to E-1 and a dishonorable discharge. Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator Tony E. DeDolph was one of four men charged in the death...

U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 member Tony DeDolph was sentenced over the weekend to 10 years in prison for the June 2017 hazing death of U.S. Army Green Beret Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar. The Virginian Pilot reported DeDolph was also demoted from the rank of chief petty officer to seaman, and will be dishonorably discharged and will have to forfeit pay. DeDolph’s sentence comes more than a week after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Melgar’s death. DeDolph, Chief SWO Adam C. Matthews, U.S. Marine Raider Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell Jr. and Marine Raider Gunnery Sgt. Mario Madera-Rodriguez were all i...