AQUATIC CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The previous commander for the Wounded Warrior Regiment had been sentenced to 60 days confinement minus three days he’s got currently invested in prison and a $10,000 fine after pleading bad to using an {inappropriate relationship with|rela Marine corporal at Friday court-martial.
Col. T. Shane «Rhino» Tomko also pleaded responsible to making use of a subordinate to secure testosterone, breaking a military protective purchase maybe not to get hold of their spouse and arriving drunk to their May 6 arraignment.
Tomko were near to a panic assault following the verdict ended up being read. Their armed forces lawyer, Maj. Geoff Shows, attempted to sooth him straight down by assuring him he’d just invest a few months in the brig.
Shows told reporters afterwards he was not sure yet if Tomko will appeal that he was not satisfied with the decision and. He declined to touch upon just how their client is managing the verdict.
At sentencing on Friday, Shows argued that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder had turned Tomko from an leader that is exemplary «a Marine officer that is therefore broken which he can not get free from his very own means.»
Shows argued that Tomko drank after being told never to he couldn’t admit to because he was distressed about being prohibited from seeing his wife, and Tomko was later diagnosed with having low Testosterone levels – something.
«Col. Tomko requires assistance, maybe not confinement,» Shows said.
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