FORT DRUM — A West Point graduate who cited his religious beliefs in a lawsuit against the Army while serving in Iraq has been granted conscientious objector status and given an honorable discharge. Capt. Peter Brown, a 2004 graduate and member of the 10th Mountain Division, said his religious convictions prevented him from carrying a loaded weapon or ordering his men to use lethal force. “I’m relieved the Army recognized that my religious beliefs made it impossible for me to serve as a soldier,” Brown said in a news release issued Tuesday through the American Civil Liberties Union, which had intervened and filed a lawsuit on his behalf in U.S. District Court in Washington. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Hickory Farms
