Objector/rapper dismissed by US Army

Source: PressTV
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A soldier who protested at his redeployment through a rap song communicated to the higher-ups has been dismissed by the US Army for misconduct.

Angered by the extension of his service, Marc A. Hall had told his battalion commander that he might shoot or otherwise attack a fellow US soldier, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.

A menace-laden rap song he had recorded and sent to the Army's personnel office in July 2009 attracted considerable attention to his case.

"I got a (expletive) magazine with 30 rounds, on a three-round burst, ready to fire down. …Still against the wall, I grab my M-4, spray and watch all the bodies hit the floor," he had rapped in the recording.

However, on Saturday Couragetoresist.org, a support organization for military objectors, called the dismissal a "joyous victory" and said the Army put Hall in custody after he said he could not afford the required mental readiness for combat and used the song as a "pretext."

His civilian lawyer, David Gespass, said, "The song was a way for him to sort of vent."

"He was, I think, less and less happy about the idea even of having a weapon and using it," he added