The Defense Department dumped an officer’s body. Now it must give his wife a job!
On Wednesday, an appeals tribunal concluded that the Defense Department unjustly retaliated against a whistleblower who filed for a civil service job after her husband was killed in combat in Iraq and the Air Force dumped his cremated ashes at a Virginia landfill.
Garilynn Smith alerted the media and a congressman after learning of her husband’s mistreatment five years after his death as a U.S. Army sergeant and bomb disposal technician. Smith was a civilian Army employee in New Jersey […]