In 1967, Mitch McConnell was court-martialed for sodomy but was quietly released from active duty thanks to the intervention of a Senator

[Kicking Ass and Taking Names]

Here is the full story. It's a long story. Go to the link where you
will find links to the documentation.


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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/24/1189537/-The-Strange-and-Possibly-Sordid-Story-of-Mitch-McConnell-s-Military-Service




I saw a tweet today that startled me:

Ohio Citizen ?@OhioCitizen
I don't know if Judd is running but McConnell is going to have a hard
time. His court martial for sodomy in 67 will be huge.
Naturally, I asked for clarification, and got this. Before seeing this
tweet, I had had no idea that McConnell had ever served in the
military.

The OP's speculations were summarily dismissed, but I was sufficiently
intrigued to dig a little deeper. Most of the information that I found
is from 2007/2008. I'm really surprised that it didn't get more press.
But as a result, the information that I did find was fairly thin.

Here are the basic, very skimpy facts: Mitch McConnell was classified
2-S ("Registrant deferred due to activity in study") on August 8th,
1962, and remained as such until May 4th, 1967. Source, through
HillBilly Reports

He enlisted in either March 1967 or in July 1967 and served at Fort
Knox in the 100th Division (Training) of the U.S. Army Reserve until
August 15, 1967. He was assigned Selective Service number
15-131-42-44.

His Wikipedia entry backs this up:

He graduated with honors from the University of Louisville with a B.A.
in political science in 1964. McConnell was student body president and
a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He has maintained strong
ties to his alma mater and "remains a rabid fan of its sports
teams."[6] Three years later, McConnell graduated from the University
of Kentucky College of Law, where he was president of the Student Bar
Association.

Addison M. McConnell, Jr., reported for duty as instructed, possibly
in April or May, 1967. After that, though, things get murky.
Convoluted explanations, obfuscations, outright denials, ("Senator
McConnell had polio as a child and he never served in armed services.�
said Robert Steurer, press secretary for McConnell in Washington. �I
am not aware of him ever serving.�) and a strange little
bombshell--maybe--below the arabesque.

Hillbilly Report tried to dig into McConnell's military record as best
they could. They requested his Selective Service records, and
basically ran into a brick wall.

December, 2007 we submitted a request for the Selective Service
Classification Records for Senator Saxby Chambliss, Rep Tom Tancredo
and Senator Mitch McConnell. When we received the Selective Service
Classification Records from the Selective Service System all of the
records were included with the exception of Senator Mitch McConnell's
and his was an extract put together by Richard Flahavan, Associate
Director for Intergovernmental Affairs.

When Richard Flahavan was questioned about sending us an extract of
Senator Mitch McConnell's Selective Service Classification Record, he
responded in writing that " Selective Service no longer has access to
Selective Service records for men born prior to 1960."

Knowing that we had already received the full Selective Service
Classification Records for Senator Saxby Chambliss, Rep Tom Tancredo
born in 1943 and 1945 respectively we felt that Richard Flahavan was
possibly covering for Senator Mitch McConnell. In Richard Flahavan's
extract he writes "the U.S. Army ordered him to undergo an Armed
Forces Physical Examination which he did July 9, 1967. Apparently, he
did not pass because he was released from the U.S. Army Reserve August
15, 1967."

I just love that word apparently!


But as they reported, Mitch McConnell "apparently" never HAD an Armed
Forces Physical Examination: Photo from Mitch McConnell's service
record

According to Wikipedia,

In 1967, to gain experience on Capitol Hill, during his final semester
of law school, McConnell was an intern for Senator John Sherman Cooper
(R-KY).

Not coincidentally, Senator Cooper possibly created or was used as a
diversion regarding McConnell's military service.

Hillbilly Report
Feb. 13, 2007

Kentucky Kernel Article, dated November 1, 1996.

Senator�s Discharge Questioned
By Chris Padgett
News Editor

A letter found in the UK Library Department of Special Collections of
a request from a former U.S. Senator to the then commanding general of
Fort Knox created conflicting stories Thursday about the military
record of Republican U. S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.

The letter was found in the personal letters of U. S. Sen. John
Sherman Cooper, a Republican from Kentucky. it was written to Maj.
Gen. A. D. Surles, commanding general of Fort Knox. McConnell served
as an intern in Coopers Washington, DC. office in summer of 1964. He
was in boot camp at Ft. Knox and a member of the 100th Division of the
U.S. Army Reserve.

The letter was dated August 10, 1967, during a time when U.S. troops
were being sent to Vietnam for combat duty.

In the letter, Cooper advises the major general that �Mitchell anxious
to clear post in order to enroll NYU. Please advise when final action
can he expected.�

According to the Registrar�s Office at New York University, no record
exists that McConnell ever applied or enrolled for classes at that
university. McConnell attended UK and earned a law degree in 1967
before he enlisted in the Army reserve.

Senator Cooper died in 1991, at the age of 89. Here's a more complete
note on the letter:

While waiting for the release from active military duty McConnell?s
Army Reserve Unit was serving it?s summer active duty at Ft. Jackson,
South Carolina. Instead of following military procedure that would
transfer McConnell from the training unit back to the Army Reserve
Unit, McConnell was released from military service directly from the
training unit by the Commanding General of Ft. Knox. This is a direct
violation of military procedure and would only occur in the most
critical circumstances.

What raises questions is a copy of a telegram sent from the office of
Senator John Sherman Cooper to Commanding General A.D. Surles of Ft.
Knox to speed the release of Private McConnell.

A computer replica of the document follows on the next page. You can
obtain a copy of the document at the University of Kentucky, Margaret
I. King Library, Special Collections, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.
The reference for the document is as follows:

John Sherman Cooper Papers
Senatorial Series II 1956-72
Office Copy File from 1967
Box 792

Army (hold)

McConnell,Mitchell
COPY

AUGUST 10, 1967

MAJOR GENERAL A. D. SURLES
COMMANDING GENERAL
FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY

PVT MITCHELL MCCONNELL, ER 15 767 802, BEING MEDICALLY DISCHARGED YOUR
STATION OPTIC NEURITIS. PAPERS IN OFFICE
SPECIALIST HUMMER, COLONEL FLETCHER BATTALION CO. MITCHELL ANXIOUS TO
CLEAR POST IN ORDER TO ENROLL NYU. PLEASE ADVISE WHEN FINAL ACTION CAN
BE EXPECTED.

JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, USS

OFFICIAL

DAY LETTER

KSF

The official story for McConnell's discharge--in spite of "apparently"
not having an actual physical exam--is a diagnosis of optic neuritis,
a condition easily cured by steroids in 1967.

According to Allen, optic neuritis by itself is not a reason for an
individual to be discharged from the military. McConnell, who also
held a position in the UK College of Law in 1994, would not be
interviewed and would not comment on Cooper�s letter or his discharge.

�Senator McConnell will not be available to discuss this,� Simmons
said. �We have not and will not release Senator McConnell�s medical
records.�

And now for the possibly sordid part, sourced here:

The missing part of the story-?

Alan Lynch, a Lexington Postal Clerk, served in the 100th Army Reserve
Unit, Louisville, Kentucky. He was in another unit in 1964 but the
Army did a consolidation of units and he was transferred to the 100th
in 1965 or 1966. He performed several duties while he served in the
military as a postal clerk and personnel officer. Mr. Lynch has a
remarkable story about the summer of 1967.

The summary of the story is as follows:

In the summer of 1967 Lynch reported for his summer active duty in the
100th Training Unit Army Reserve. The Unit did their summer active
duty at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. Lynch worked for S-1, the
administrative arm of any army unit. Lynch worked for a Major, who was
the assistant Adjutant and new to the unit. During his active duty in
August of 1967 Lynch remembers coming into the office and noticed that
the Major was upset. He asked him what was going on and the Major told
him the following:

A new member of the 100th Army Reserve Unit in Basic Training at Ft.
Knox was arrested in the barracks for sodomy. The guy is getting out
of the military and the excuse will be due to an illness, an eye
disorder. The Major then told a joke about it saying, "I guess the guy
couldn't see the difference between guys and girls."

Lynch asked him how this guy could accomplish this and get a release
from the army. The Major told him that the soldier had served as an
intern to Senator John Sherman Cooper and Senator Cooper called the
Commanding General of Ft. Knox to arrange the discharge.

At the time the Major told Lynch the name of the soldier but the name
didn't stick to his brain. Lynch said frankly it was not important at
the time because the name McConnell meant nothing to him. It was not
until the issue was raised in McConnell's senate race of 1990 that he
remembered the incident. Lynch provided the information to reporters
with the Courier Journal and Herald Leader but they did nothing with
it because they didn't have any real evidence. They only have the
story of Lynch.

McConnell has been able to brush this whole thing off as a tempest in
a teapot.

It's entirely possible, of course, that McConnell was simply a
namby-pamby wimpy-pants who really, really didn't WANT to go to war
and serve his country. So he begged his former boss to pull strings
and lie to get him the hell out of the Army Reserves. In other words,
a typical chickenhawk who wants YOUR children to fight and possibly
die, while he wears a suit and tie and pontificates.
I didn't find anything regarding a court martial until I stumbled upon
this.

Like when I investigated and reported on Larry Craig after 26 years of
rumors, I�ve turned fresh eyes on this case and recently noticed an
interesting inconsistency with McConnell�s public Army record. In
particular, there is a differing answer to a section of his records
titled, �Transcript of Court Martial.� While every other section of
McConnell�s records without information simply �n/a,� this particular
section uniquely states, �not on file.� Does that mean a McConnell
court martial file exists? Only the Senator knows.
Further digging turned up the original source for the above: Link
And FWIW:

o: Uma Guerilla (#0)

Beard wife. This story has been around a long time...closet queens
have kids and a submissive wife as cover.

A couple of far right loons attacked DWT last week for making public
what so many people in Washington already know, that homophobic
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell lives the secret life of a closet
queen. I had to laugh since their indignation and outrage wasn't
unlike the indignation and outrage directed towards us when we exposed
other closeted Republican hypocrites like Mark Foley (R-FL), David
Dreier (R-CA) and Jim West (R-WA Hell). And the "proof" McConnell is
straight? He's married and has kids. I don't know if these guys are
naive or just liars but they need a little lesson about what a closet
queen is (especially since so many of the elite in their hate-filled--
and rapidly shrinking-- little party seem to reside in the closet).

John McCain was a prisoner in Vietnam. So was Gary Glitter, and I'm
not voting for him either.

Mekons5 posted on 2008-11-01 20:49:31 ET Reply Trace Private
Reply

From The People's Forum
Personally, I don't care if McConnell is a closet queen. I see him
more as a cross-dresser in frilly pink underwear, but I don't care
about that either. I DO care about whether he's a hypocrite and a
liar, and whether he has a sordid past that can possibly get his
obstructionist ass out of Congress.

-- end quote

______________

Today's Republicans, conservatives, and Teabaggers are

". . .the jackals, the cowards, the traitors, the failures,
the yapping feist pack that tries to drive out truth;
those who dislike Jews, Negroes, Catholics and liberals;
the bitter and evil persons who organize themselves and
send out hate literature; the Klan types,
the States� Rights diehards, those who dynamite churches,
synagogues and homes --
they are the abscesses in America�s society. "

-- Ralph McGill, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1968

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On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:20:20 -0500, Kicking Ass and Taking Names
<PopUl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In 1967, Mitch McConnell was court-martialed for sodomy but was
>quietly released from active duty thanks to the intervention of a
>Senator

Oops! Caught lying...

McConnell enlisted in the 100th Division (Training), U.S. Army
Reserve, in Louisville, Kentucky, during his final semester of law
school. He did six months active service at Fort Knox, thereafter
serving the active reserve. He received an early discharge for optic
neuritis, which is a common manifestation of multiple sclerosis.
However, it is unknown if he has multiple sclerosis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell


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On Sun, 02 May 2010 23:47:42 -0400, Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
<PopUl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Let's review the bidding.
>Beginning a few days ago, the rightwing lie machine was bending over
>and spreading its cheeks over a National Enquirer claim that Obama had
>an affair with a young woman who was raising money for his campaign.
>Now, the Enquirer has dropped the story and printed a retraction.

Oops! Caught LYING, again:

OBAMA CHEATING SCANDAL: SHOCKING NEW REPORTS
UPDATED: Reports out of Washington, DC:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/reports_obama_cheating_scandal_vera_baker_investigation/celebrity/68590

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Mitch likes dudes

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Has anyone fact checked the sodomy charge on Mitch Mc Connell

[jimhe...@gmail.com]

The story was published in Ft Knox newspaper and rebulicans tried to stop the article but failed.

[leonb...@gmail.com]

I always knew he had an eye fir little boys. This is another closet gatboy gating everyone able to come out but himself

[ddsc...@gmail.com]

Wiki has the "straightened" up version. Certainly not the indisputable source.

[kbaue...@gmail.com]

🤣🤣Citing wiki as a reliable source of info is absolutely hilarious. Thank you for that laugh. I needed that.

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[robertja...@gmail.com]

I heard he likes to take it in the neck vagina.

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Does it matter if it's true? With all the lives and deceit coming from that man and his master, if he was busted for sodomy the republicans will just lay hands on him and forgive him so long as he's taking it deep from trump.

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[ImNotDotCalm]

On Monday, February 25, 2013 at 1:20:20 AM UTC-5, Kickin' Ass & Takin' Names wrote:
> Here is the full story. It's a long story. Go to the link where you
> will find links to the documentation.
>
>
> -- quote
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/24/1189537/-The-Strange-and-Possibly-Sordid-Story-of-Mitch-McConnell-s-Military-Service
>

> This may very well be why he's such a major unwavering Trump* supporter. My guess is Herr Trump has pix of Mitch in a bustier and on his knees in front of Lindsey Graham. It makes perfect sense.

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On Monday, February 25, 2013 at 1:20:20 AM UTC-5, Kickin' Ass & Takin' Names wrote:

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