Tag: Adm. Leon Edney
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Fitzpatrick Court-Martial: Defense Attorney “Witnessed Against Himself”
“IT’S NOTHING BUT A MIRACLE THAT WE HAVE THIS” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 23, 2014) — In July 1990, following a special court-martial brought about by malicious intent, CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick’s appointed defense counsel, Marines Captain Kevin M. “Andy” Anderson, signed Fitzpatrick’s misspelled name to a “Response to Letter of Reprimand” letter, then had…
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Fitzpatrick Court-Martial: Convening Authority Admitted “Career Ending Punishment” Should Not Have Happened
DOES BITOFF HAVE REGRETS FOR WHAT HE DID? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 15, 2014) — In a 1999 letter written by Adm. John Bitoff (Ret.) to Richard E. Danzig, then-Secretary of the Navy, Bitoff asserted that the charges brought against CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III (Ret.) “should not have consummated in trial by court-martial with…
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Testifying Witness to Fitzpatrick Court-Martial Relates “Strange” Proceedings
“BOLD-FACED LIES” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 20, 2014) — In our last interview with Command Master Chief Poasa Fa’aita (Ret.), who served on board the USS MARS with executive officer CDR Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III in the late 1980s, he described the events which prompted MARS crew members to send a contingent to Washington, DC…
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Former USS MARS Command Master Chief Recounts Events Used to Concoct Fitzpatrick Court-Martial, Part 2
CHIEF OF NAVAL PERSONNEL: “IT WAS VERY THOUGHTFUL OF YOU GUYS” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 12, 2014) — In Part 1 of The Post & Email’s interview with retired Command Master Chief Poasa Fa’aita, the former USS MARS crew member described the circumstances leading up to the dispatching of a contingent to Washington, DC to…