He says he was abused and retaliated against. The Army says it has done all it can do.

In May, his company commander found him guilty of making a false official statement regarding an unauthorized absence. In June, his battalion commander found him guilty of seven counts of misconduct, including disrespecting an officer, disobeying an NCO, failing to report for duty and lying four separate times about his whereabouts.

“Based on this pattern of misconduct, the command initiated an administrative separation action under Army Regulation 635-200 14-12b in September 2018,” Kelley said, adding that Frederick has declined to retain a military attorney to defend himself, nor has he sought to appeal his prior punishments.

Army regulations recommend an "other than honorable” discharge under the circumstances, Kelley said, but the brigade commander decided on the “general” characterization

There are definitely some people that upon receiving stripes develop attitude problems.

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