Soldier will serve no more than 14 months for drunken driving [View All]

Soldier will serve no more than 14 months for drunken driving crash that killed fellow GI

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — A Landstuhl-based soldier was sentenced Thursday to two years of confinement, a bad conduct discharge and reduction to E-1 for his role in a September 2006 drunken driving crash that killed a fellow soldier.
Under the terms of his pretrial agreement, Spc. Dedrick Nash will serve no more than 14 months’ confinement.

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Nash, who worked in radiology at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, faced a maximum of three years’ confinement, a dishonorable discharge, reduction to the lowest rank and forfeiture of all pay and allowances.

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Prosecuting attorney Capt. Jocelyn Stewart asked military judge Lt. Col. Edward J. O’Brien to give Nash 18 months’ confinement and a bad conduct discharge.
“Specialist Yilma did not die in the war against terror,” she said. “He died because of a war the Army is losing in its own backyard — the war against drunk driving.”

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