IG Sergeant Charles Martland has been sacked by the US military

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Sergeant 1st Class Charles Martland, from Massachusetts, has been ordered to leave the US army by November 1 and has now been refused leave to appeal. It comes after the 33-year-old and another soldier shoved a local commander, whom he had trained, accused of raping a 12-year-old Afghan boy. He walked away with bruising. The Afghan commander was also said to have attacked the boy’s mother when she said she was going to report the attack in war-torn Kunduz Province, where the soldiers were deployed in 2011.

But Sergeant Martland was reprimanded by a senior officer for “flagrant departure from professionalism and even-tempered leadership” and axed. Earlier this week Mr Martland, who has served as a Green Beret for 11 years, was told that his case “does not meet the criteria” for an appeal. The US Army Human Resources Command wrote in a memo to the soldier: “Consequently your request for an appeal and continued service is disapproved.

GETTY Sergeant Martland was told that his case “does not meet the criteria” for an appeal

Before the attack, Mr Martland and Captain Dan Quinn confronted the soldier about the claims, to which he just “laughed about it and said it ‘wasn’t a big deal’". The two soldiers shoved him to the ground and he walked away with bruises. But after the attack the commander complained to the US Army, who reportedly halted Mr Martland’s mission, put him in a temporary job and sent him home.

IG The two soldiers shoved the Afghan commander to the ground and he walked away with bruises