In one case, an air-force senior airman named Bryan Harris, while being prosecuted for sodomy and assault on Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, was given a lesser sentence after supplying the names of 17 other soldiers who had allegedly engaged in homosexual activity. To Arthur Hoffman, he looks jumpy. [7] Winchell died of massive head injuries on July 6 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Corrections officials blamed the error on the sheriff's office, citing its "failure to provide the IDOC with proper paperwork." Dont worry, said Fisher. Or you could walk inside a stall at a recreation center and find a different phrase: All fagets in the army will be killed.. He is the driver for the company commander, and he seems to like that role because he can whisper in the commanders ear about who wants what. Glover, 29, and Patrick Calvin, 23, were both charged with murder for the shooting that killed Larry Porter on the Dan Ryan near 87th Street, the Cook County state's attorney's office and. Later on, when Pat retrieved his possessions, she found it, tied neatly in ribbons. He also took methamphetamines from time to time. He continues to swing the bat. When Private Gregory Clyde sees this, he assumes that Fisher is trying to help Winchell. Both Fisher and Calvin Glover, who was convicted of wielding the bat, had serious alcohol problems as well as past troubles with the law. They think hes a blowhard, a bullshitter, a guy so desperate for attention that hell say anything and do anythingthrowing beer bottles against a wall when he thinks no one is listening to him, or punching someone because he wants to use the phone. Glover and his co-conspirators formed a company, Shintan Inc., that purported to be in the business of producing biodiesel. She had spent a lot of her 49 years worrying about Barry. Joyce goes upstairs, sees blood coming out of Winchells mouth, hears him choking, then runs back downstairs and calls 911. Somewhere around 3:30 A.M., Glover comes running toward the scene. They were incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks. Fisher hears Winchell making gurgling sounds. Born in the USA, he lived in China for three years and traveled extensively in Central America for six years following his retirement. Fisher tells Bettencourt that someone would have to be sick to do something like that. He is hit in the forehead and the temple and the jaw. I cant believe you got your ass kicked by a faggot, he said. She and Wally get on a Southwest Airlines flight. Ruiz, his wife, Melanie, and Fisher were in the back. Its an incubator for hate, says C. Dixon Osburn, co-executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a watchdog group which has monitored thousands of cases involving Dont ask, dont tell over the past six years. In an all-volunteer army, where it is harder and harder to find good soldiers, he has become a soldiers soldier, and Michael Kleifgen, his section sergeant, who has been in the army for a decade, says that if he could have 10 more soldiers like Barry Winchell he would take them in a heartbeat. He was heard in this episode in a prison phone interview. It is now possible to call 911. It isnt just the anti-gay harassment that eats away at them, but so many other detailsthe drinking, the inability to call 911, the very fact that two young men with such troubled pasts were allowed to get into the army in the first place. Private Winchell's mother, Patricia Kutteles, a registered nurse from Kansas City, Mo., was quick to accuse the Army of a cover-up. [5] After deliberating, military jurors decided to give Glover a chance at parole. Glover's attorneys continued to argue that Fisher had goaded him into attacking Winchell. But the U.S. military still prohibits inveterate homosexual behavior of any kind, even if it is conducted in absolute privacy. On paper the regulations make it clear that service members are not to be harassed, and that harassers should be reported. He can still mix with the other soldiers, however. These documented cases are just a small sampling of the aftershocks of the Dont ask, dont tell policy, which, in the minds of many, was doomed from the beginning. A sentencing hearing for Pvt. As a Private First Class, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 502nd Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division. The promotion would be another obstacle in the way of everything we have tried to do to honor our son." I ought to go outside and fuck him up, he says to Fisher. She had spoken to her son the previous Thursday. Calvin Glover was sentenced to Life With The Possibility of Parole. He said he'd found God in prison. They see their son in a coma, breathing with the aid of a respirator. [20] After being exonerated, he was nominated and approved for promotion to lieutenant general on December 5, 2003. The guilty verdict carried a mandatory penalty of life in prison, but military jurors did have the option today of deciding whether Glover would ever be eligible for parole. In July, he murdered Private First Class Barry Winchell by pounding in his skull with a baseball bat. But he doesnt want to leave the wrong impression, so hes flexible. Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, a point man on LGBT issues for the U.S. Army, visited with Patricia Kutteles. And at the party, Fisher dug deeper. midshipman at Cornell University named Robert A. Gaige disclosed his sexual orientation to his commander after a fellow midshipman said to him, Now, Gaige, you better not look at my cock while I change or Ill beat the fuck out of you and your fag boyfriend. A private first class named Gabrielle N. Butler made a statement of sexual orientation to her commanding officer in which she said that the fear of being found outparticularly after a sergeant asked her if she planned on marrying a femalehad led her to go on unauthorized leave. A few months later, Glover was placed in another youth facility, in Ada, where he earned his G.E.D. How does your face feel? asks Fisher. Today, Pat thinks she knows why her son left out the details. Then he said, Well see, and left. Fishers drinking was an obvious problem, and so was his use of medication for his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Winchell's parents testified during the hearing, describing him as a loving, compassionate man who enjoyed the Army and wanted to become a helicopter pilot. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Tiefland. She also said he was easily influenced by others since he wanted attention. She has filed a claim against the Army under the Military Claims Act for wrongful death and is seeking $1.4 million in damages. Winchell," said defense attorney Captain Thomas Moshang. Fisher leaves six messages for Long, at least one of which refers to the baseball bat that Fisher had purchased and Glover had used to kill Winchell. He saw Addams only while off the post and off-duty. But their legacy will be differenta sickening spray of blood which will constitute perhaps the single greatest act of disgrace to occur at a modern military installation on American soil. When the family was living in Tarpon Springs, Florida, he left high school but enrolled at a technical school. This reflects great credit upon him, the strike force battalion, the 101st Airborne Division and the United States Army, the citation reads. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. I had nothing against him. Rather, the report described a sort of upstairs-downstairs mentality at the base in which instances of harassment were not brought to the attention of those in command who might have stopped them. I'm deeply sorry for the pain I've brought your family. He is wearing white garden gloves with little black dots on them. Fisher shares it with a roommate who is sleeping on a cot outside with the company mascot, an Australian blue heeler named Nasty. Last January, Gore made a firm commitment to change the Dont ask, dont tell policy and allow gays to serve without the restrictions that now exist. When Glover was sentenced, he tearfully talked about finding God and how jail would be good for him and how he wasnt half the man that Barry Winchell was. All rights reserved. One night, after partying, he went to his room and acted as if he was going to swallow a handful of pills, until he was stopped by Ruiz. Doctors have advised him not to drink, but Fisher settled on his own little compromise. You and me are in the family. Its hard to know how many blows there aremaybe three, maybe five. . It was just a mistake, sir. But then something just clicked, particularly when it was clear that he could shoot the bejesus out of the machine gun, finding targets during training in the field that no one else saw. This just stays in the family, says one of the soldiers. He told her that he was going to go down to Florida with Medinger, and she told him how much she liked the new job she had started as a psychiatric nurse. Hell take $50,000 for his story of how he murdered an American soldier in his sleep. The house in Kansas City is filled with sadness and wisps of cigarette smoke. He is being held in the D-Cellblock at Fort Campbell and strikes up a conversation with Private Kenneth Buckler. Winchell walked back outside and offered Glover a couple of beers as a peace offering. It seemed clear to Kleifgen that Fisher had only one motive in mind with Winchell: to mess with him. Army leaders need to deal with this problem head on, and stop the harassment. He went to high school for a while, first to Sulphur High and later to Ada High, then he dropped out altogether. After Glover allegedly committed a burglary and an assault, his father, Rue, had him placed in a youth facility. In a further effort to show that Glovers actions were not premeditated, defense attorneys also point to the soldiers drunkenness. It is the soundtrack from Gus Van Sants 1998 remake of Hitchcocks Psycho, and the words scream and slash: Two infantry soldiers from the U.S. Army, one from Oklahoma, the other from Nebraska, sit listening to the soundtrack in Room 303. Blood from Winchells head sprays the wall next to the cot, covering a 13 1/2-foot area. Troy Garity portrays Winchell with Lee Pace playing Calpernia Addams. He wouldn't stay in school, and he was flunking. Pat and Wally go to Vanderbilt. "He was out of control. Winchell told Glover that he had a bottle of Southern Comfort in his room if Glover wanted some. If he has any complaint about the military, it concerns the amount of downtime, but he is hoping to correct that by entering warrant-officer school and maybe learning how to fly a Blackhawk helicopter. His voice cracking, he said "If I had acted as half the man, even half the soldier as Barry was, hed be with us right now. Sergeant Kleifgen is in the group that meets them at the Nashville airport, and it becomes rapidly clear to them that he admired their son in the classic way that a sergeant admires a grunt. Still, an age exception was approved, and he was allowed to enlist even though he wasnt yet 18. But there may have been another reason the most serious charges against Fisher were dropped, one that he himself suggested to a fellow soldier who was guarding him during one of the court proceedings. It is somewhere around 1:30 in the morning in the haze of boredom and beer that defines so much of life in the barracks of Delta Company. Phase 5 of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe is filled with new releases, reboots, and spin-offs. Winchell's parents, Wally and Patricia Kutteles said "Suddenly, the Army let him plead to nothing related to the actual murder . According to Sanders report, Fisher admits that he taunted Glover about being beaten up by a faggot. He admits that when Glover said that he should go outside and fuck Winchell up he had urged him to go for it. He admits that he washed the bloody bat. He has also been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and is being treated with Wellbutrin, an antidepressant drug. Hes often walking around in a haze, with a beer in his hand. After Glover dropped out of school in 8th grade, his parents enrolled him in a youth counseling program. In other words, homosexuals can serve as long as they become celibate and deny the very fact that they are homosexual. His life, like Fishers, was fracturedparental divorce, juvenile problems, shuffling between households. But the report, whose findings were first reported by CBS News, also concluded that the 101st Airborne does not suffer from an unacceptable degree of homophobia, officials said. He knew that if he let Glover get up he would just start swinging again. On Aug. 8, 2020, Glover pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. He starts yelling, Winchell, Winchell, come on, get up!, but he is apparently looking straight at Glover when he says it. But according to Alanna Nashwho spent time with the real Colonel in the 90sthere were times when he was just as scary as what you see onscreen. He has a plan. But she also concluded that the incident with the sergeant had made her aware of the reality of serving as a closeted lesbian in the United States Marine Corps. The mascot, Nasty, is near the cot, which is why Winchell is thereto take care of the dog, since Fisher wont allow him in the room. According to court documents and statements made in court, from 2010 to 2013, Calvin Glover and his co-conspirators defrauded the U.S. of $7.2 million by filing false claims with the IRS for biodiesel tax credits. Then he went back to the cot. The army has no ethics, she says. I wasn't mad at him for any reason. Fuck you, says Glover. Michelle M. Benecke, co-director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization that provides legal aid to gays in the military, also criticized the pending report. He has something of a baby face, which seems to conceal an underlying malevolence. Sometime in the spring of 1999, while the company was practicing field maneuvers, Kleifgen flat out asked Winchell if he was gay. ''I'm not saying that harassment hasn't occurred,'' a Pentagon official said. Calvin Glover, an eighteen year old new recruit, was ultimately charged with the murder of Barry Winchell. Then Glover has an idea. While stationed there, he received a Dear John letter from his high school sweetheart. Notably, defendant was arrested for committing this burglary four days after being released from the county jail on another charge.2 A jury convicted him of the September burglary. Arguing for a chance of parole, Glover's defense team pointed to his difficult upbringing, young age, and claimed that Fisher had used him as a pawn. But on December 9, Calvin Glover is found guilty of the premeditated murder of Barry Winchell and sentenced to life imprisonment. At first he says he slept through the whole thing. It spatters the ceiling, eight feet above Winchells head. He is joined by Sergeant Bradley Harden, who applies a field dressing. All he said was that he was going out with a dancer in Nashvillehardly surprising given that he had previously dated a girl for several years. "I saw an immediate change," his mother said. Medinger began swerving all over the road and had to stop the car four or five times so Fisher could calm down. There is a pasty whiteness to him that speaks of aimless cruising in aimless towns which once had a brief heyday because of the railroad or a certain kind of crop. The letter is in certain places groping and pathetic, as if he still has no real idea of the horror of what he did, and he suggests that his memory of the crime is questionable because he was so drunk. The Army investigation coincided with a second report by a advisory group created by Defense Secretary William S. Cohen after the Pentagon's inspector general said last March that harassment of servicemen perceived to be gay was widespread throughout the military. Pvt. Smith was inclined to believe he had definitely taken something, because he was familiar with Glovers behavior, and also because he had worked as a mental-rehabilitation counselor in Annapolis. The S.L.D.N. I will let you know Fishers true involvement, he writes. And as one witness told investigators, he certainly didnt mention that he had once started stroking Winchells feet in the middle of the night when Winchell was sleeping. It never ever should have happened. Its cool, right? he said to Glover. It was Fisher who initiated the rumor that Winchell was a homosexual. He figures he needs a civilian defense attorney for that, and that costs money. ''I'm just so disappointed, really, really disappointed,'' Ms. Kutteles said today in a telephone interview. He looks both stupid and scary, with narrow eyes which can go from first gear to fifth in seconds. But in the reality of the military, a soldier reporting another soldier for gay harassment would only make him more of a pariah in the unitnot just a suspected queer, but a suspected queer who snitches. The S.L.D.N. His promotion to lieutenant general was delayed in October 2002 and May 2003. [10], Fisher pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice, one count of providing alcohol to a minor, and three counts of false swearing and was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. ''But when the leadership discovered the problem, action was taken.''. C. Dixon Osburn, then the co-executive director of the OutServe-SLDN, decried the sentence as a "travesty". Glover asks Hoffman what all the commotion is about, and Hoffman tells him that Winchell is throwing up blood. Al Gore, the Democratic nominee for president, called Pat and Wally Kutteles in Kansas City to express his condolences, but when Wally Kutteles tried to tell him what this case truly represented, it seemed clear to him that all Gore wanted to do was to get off the phone. ORDER Setting Conditions of Release as to . But with the macho code of the military, where excessive drinking appears to be a merit badge all its own, no one in their chain of command seems to care very much. Glovers behavior at the party had been par for the course. He was drinking, and he was only 13. Calvin Glover is now 33 and serving a life sentence. Hoffman and Fisher stayed with Glover and tried to work on his ego by persuading him that he had really won the fight. The faggot, they call him. 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