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The first officer to have his name cleared after a botched Army investigation has received his previously denied promotion. But other soldiers are still waiting.
The expanded internal review comes almost three months after an Army Times investigation.
Maj. Gilberto De Leon was among close to 2,000 soldiers slapped with a false arrest record due to participating in a National Guard recruiting program known as G-RAP.
The first officer to have his name cleared after a botched Army investigation has received his previously denied promotion. But other soldiers are still waiting.
Now-Maj. Gilberto De Leon has been the face of soldiers and vets who were falsely listed in arrest databases by Army investigators.