U.S. Marines discharge sergeant for Facebook posts
Thursday, April 26, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- A sergeant will be discharged for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook in a case that called into question the Pentagon's policies about social media and its limits on the speech of active duty military personnel, the Marine Corps said Wednesday.
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