In my first year of law school, I sat with my classmates in the school’s common area. We were full of nerves, still trying to figure out who was a friend and who was going to hide the books in the library to try and get a competitive edge. A weary third-year law student spotted us and approached with sage advice. She looked me dead in the eyes and told me to take the money and run - to Paris, to Prague, it didn’t matter where. She just wanted me to save myself from law school. I love learning so the advice didn’t call to me. But Lieutenant Kevin Furth, staring down the barrel of jump school with the Army, decided to do just that… to take the money and run.
I used the appellate court opinions:
And referenced information from:
Furth's Appellate Brief, Court Listener, CAAFlog, UCMJ Defense, Army Pubs, Go Army, Operation Military Kids, PBS, The NY Times, Cornell, and the Vance opinion.
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