December 28, 2004

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  Maj. Kaus arrives home Monday after serving her sentence

  
  

  Officer released from brig for 'scrounging'

  
  

  28-year veteran said she would do it again

  
  

  Monday, December 27, 2004

  
  

  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A former Ohio Army Reserve commander who was court-martialed for taking abandoned Army vehicles in Kuwait so her unit could carry out its mission in Iraq returned home Monday after serving a six-month sentence.

  
  

  "What we did, we did at that time because we thought we needed to do that," Maj. Cathy Kaus said at Dayton International Airport, adding that she would do it "all over again" if put in the same circumstances.

  
  

  Kaus, released Monday from a Navy brig in San Diego, said she was convicted of theft, willful neglect, abandonment and conspiracy of abandonment.

  
  

  She was among six Ohio reservists from the Springfield-based 656th Transportation Company who were court-martialed. Members of the unit said they needed the equipment to deliver fuel to U.S. forces in Iraq.

  
  

  They took two tractor-trailers and stripped parts from a truck that had been abandoned in Kuwait by other units that had already moved into Iraq.

  
  

   

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