There are times when I ashamed to be a Husky: This is one of them - Reserve soldier sues UW, alleges discrimination

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I hope against hope this isn't true.

I was commissioned into the Regular Army out of the UW back in the early 80's. A product of Clark Hall and the Kinnear Husky Battalion.

The problem with the left is that they don't tolerate dissent. I can see how it would be difficult for LTC Lukehart to exist in an environment filled with people that hated George Bush would make his life a living hell.

What they and so many like them are incapable of understanding is that we have sworn an oath.

Like most leftists, few of the haters have actually served. Few, like our president, have held private jobs; owned a business, or ever sacrificed a damned thing for this country.

But to make life difficult for someone doing their duty for this country?

"Despicable" doesn't quite cover it.

Reserve soldier sues UW, alleges discrimination
By LEVI PULKKINEN
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

An Army reservist employed at the University of Washington has filed suit against the institution, asserting in court papers that he has been harassed and discriminated against for serving in Iraq.

Employed by UW as an electrician since 1992, Army Reserve Lt. Col. James Lukehart had risen in the ranks of the university's facilities department and was working as a maintenance manager when he was ordered to deploy to Iraq in June 2006.

Before he went overseas, a group of his coworkers had told him he would be "engaging in immoral, if not illegal, action" if he went to Iraq as ordered, Lukehart asserts in court documents. Still, the reservist went to war less than three weeks after receiving notice that he'd be deployed.
According to military news reports, Lukehart served as an executive officer in an engineering brigade stationed at Ballad Air Base, 70 miles north of Baghdad. Among Lukehart's duties while deployed, according to an August 2007 edition of the Camp Anaconda Times, was the construction of a water-treatment plant in rural Iraq.

Hoping to return to work in September 2007, Lukehart found that his manager had launched an investigation into allegations of misconduct made against him while serving overseas, according to court papers.

Through his attorney, Sidney Strong, Lukehart alleges that the university gave him no notice that he was under investigation. Confronted by Lukehart, the university even declined to say what the allegations had been made.

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