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| Hunter Biden |
One of Vice President
Joe Biden's sons has been discharged from the U.S. Navy after testing positive for cocaine use during random urinalysis.
Hunter Biden, a lawyer working at an investment firm, was a direct commission Navy Reserve ensign assigned to a public affairs unit in Virginia. Cocaine use can lead to either a court-martial or nonjudicial punishment followed by administrative separation. It has not been revealed whether he received a general discharge or a more stigmatizing veterans-benefits-forfeiting other-than-honorable discharge. He was commissioned last year at age 42 and "popped positive" on the drug test after only three months. He was discharged last February, a fact that only became known recently. One cannot help but wonder whether he would have received both an age waiver and a waiver for prior drug use had he not been the Vice President's son, or what qualified him for a public affairs billet. Details
here and
here.
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Secretary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo
with Senator Gary Hart (1980) |
Readers of a certain age may recall that the Navy gave then-Sen.
Gary Hart a direct commission as a JAG Corps
Lieutenant (j.g.) in 1980. At age 44, he was six years overage at the time, and
required a waiver. He was
promoted to Lieutenant in 1982.
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