As more and more scandals and unfortunate news comes from the military, it draws the question of how much these people are risking by speaking out. This thought came to me as I was listening to a podcast, “The Politics of Survival” with Tara Reade. The episode was “The Politics Of Whistleblowing with Amy Braley-Franck.”
You see, Amy Braley-Franck was a whistleblower on what was happening inside the 416th Theater Engineer Command of the Army Reserve. She has been on paid suspension for the last two years after reporting the atrocities she witnessed while working for the 416’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Response Program (SHARP). For more information on the podcast and her testimony in Congress, go to the bottom of this article.
One of the notable cases surrounding this subject is the Supreme Court Parker v. Levy (1974).
Army Captain Doctor Howard Levy had “urged Black enlisted men to refuse to serve in Vietnam because “they are discriminated against and denied their freedom in the United States, and . . . discriminated against in Vietnam by being given all the hazardous duty, and they are suffering the majority of casualties.”
Levy was charged and convicted with Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Court of Military Justice (UCMJ), and while the federal district court affirmed the conviction, the Court of Appeals reversed the decision because it found that the articles were “unconstitutionally vague.” Sadly, the Supreme Court reinstated the conviction.
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