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Five MP's in two cars responded to Ciccolella's call and took Font to the military police station. After four hours during which he was not allowed to call his lawyer, Font was told that he had not been arrested, only "detained." He was released with severe restrictions placed on his movements and activities...
...week later, Colonel Arnold W. Alexander, the post commander at Ft. Meade, filed general court-martial charges against Font on five counts, carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years...
...Font has labeled these charges "Mickey Mouse and fraudulent." He pointed to the fourth charge and said, "This would be like me going to Gen. Westmoreland before I go into the Pentagon." He has also noted that "since all this has been going on people have been working like hell to get these barracks in shape...
...Font has found support for his allegations in many areas, including two former classmates at West Point, Captains Jon C. Anderson and Donald J. Millus, whose letter from Vietnam was published on Feb. 25 in the New York Times. The letter read in part...
...fact that a product of the most cherished of Army institutions should have moral beliefs so contrary to those of his superiors is hardly reason enough for the five picayune charges that were recently filed against Lieutenant Font. Four of the five "offenses" were of such an arbitrary nature that the majority of today's officers might be charged with an occasional violation of one or more of them. While charges of murder at My Lai are dropped in case after case and the mass relocation of Vietnamese peasants is considered, the Army plays games with an individual...