IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 451 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Sergeant Charles 
Martland, a decorated member of the Special Forces, should be reinstated 
in the United States Army. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 
Mr. BUCHANAN (for himself and Mr. HUNTER) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
Sergeant Charles Martland, a decorated member of the 
Special Forces, should be reinstated in the United States 
Army. 
Whereas, according to a New York Times report, members of 
the United States Army and Marine Corps serving in Af-
ghanistan were advised to observe cultural and religious 
practices and that sexual abuse perpetrated by local allies 
was a matter of Afghan law; 
Whereas one United States soldier said that, from his bunk 
at a base in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan 
police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to 
the base and that ‘‘at night we could hear them scream-
ing but we’re not allowed to do anything about it’’; 
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•HRES 451 IH 
Whereas fighting in a foreign theater of war should not re-
quire members of the Armed Forces to turn a blind eye 
towards criminal perversion; 
Whereas protecting child predators is abhorrent and incon-
sistent with American values; 
Whereas Sergeant First Class Charles Martland left college 
to join the Army in response to the death in Afghanistan 
of former National Football League star Pat Tillman; 
Whereas Sergeant Martland has had an 11-year career in the 
Army’s Special Forces; 
Whereas while serving in Afghanistan, Sergeant Martland 
was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism, for jumping 
in the turret of a damaged Humvee, exposing himself to 
enemy bullets while returning fire to help his teammates 
gather sensitive equipment after their vehicle was struck 
by an improvised explosive device; 
Whereas Sergeant Martland courageously confronted a 
United States-backed Afghan military commander ‘‘for 
keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave’’; 
Whereas instead of commending Sergeant Martland for 
standing up to a child predator, the Army decided to 
expel him from the service; 
Whereas in September 2015, the Army rejected Sergeant 
Martland’s appeal to continue his service; 
Whereas Sergeant Martland’s dismissal will take effect on 
November 1, 2015; and 
Whereas members of the Armed Forces should be rewarded, 
not punished, for upholding American values: Now, there-
fore, be it 
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•HRES 451 IH 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) members of the United States Armed 
Forces should not be punished for standing up to 
child rapists; 
(2) putting the interests of Afghan rapists 
ahead of American war heroes is a national disgrace; 
(3) the Americans who should be punished are 
those who created and condone the immoral and rep-
rehensible policy that encourages members of the 
Armed Forces to ignore child rape; and 
(4) the Secretary of Defense should imme-
diately order the reinstatement of Sergeant First 
Class Charles Martland as a member of the Army. 
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