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05-08-06, 06:49 PM
May 08, 2006
Hearing set for captain in drowning case
By Gidget Fuentes
Times staff writer
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A Marine Corps captain, charged with dereliction of duty in connection with last year’s drowning of a drill instructor, will be in court this week at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.
The Article 32 preliminary hearing for Capt. Vincent Guida is slated to begin Tuesday and will be run by an investigating officer, who will hear testimony and evidence in the case. The investigating officer will recommend to refer the charge to trial at a court-martial, have the charge reduced, or have the charge against the captain dismissed. The hearing is expected to continue through Thursday.
As the Instructional Training Company commander at the recruit depot, Guida had oversight of the combat training pool where Staff Sgt. Andrew Jason Gonzales, a newly-hatted drill instructor, drowned during a preparatory training course designed to prepare him for an official course that certifies Marines to become instructors in water survival training. Gonzales, of Houston, Texas, was 30 and married and had returned home last spring following a seven-month deployment to Iraq with a helicopter squadron.
Brig. Gen. John Paxton, who commands the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, referred the charge against the captain to the preliminary hearing.
Paxton last week ordered two other instructors – Staff Sgts. David Roughan and Fernando Galvan – to a general court-martial on charges of manslaughter. Those dates are still pending.
Ellie
Hearing set for captain in drowning case
By Gidget Fuentes
Times staff writer
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A Marine Corps captain, charged with dereliction of duty in connection with last year’s drowning of a drill instructor, will be in court this week at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.
The Article 32 preliminary hearing for Capt. Vincent Guida is slated to begin Tuesday and will be run by an investigating officer, who will hear testimony and evidence in the case. The investigating officer will recommend to refer the charge to trial at a court-martial, have the charge reduced, or have the charge against the captain dismissed. The hearing is expected to continue through Thursday.
As the Instructional Training Company commander at the recruit depot, Guida had oversight of the combat training pool where Staff Sgt. Andrew Jason Gonzales, a newly-hatted drill instructor, drowned during a preparatory training course designed to prepare him for an official course that certifies Marines to become instructors in water survival training. Gonzales, of Houston, Texas, was 30 and married and had returned home last spring following a seven-month deployment to Iraq with a helicopter squadron.
Brig. Gen. John Paxton, who commands the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, referred the charge against the captain to the preliminary hearing.
Paxton last week ordered two other instructors – Staff Sgts. David Roughan and Fernando Galvan – to a general court-martial on charges of manslaughter. Those dates are still pending.
Ellie