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By on August 18th, 2009 at 7:22 am

USFK Servicemember Sentenced for Role In Itaewon Bar Brawl

Another USFK servicemember has gone down in flames over the February bar brawl in Itaewon:

A fourth U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan soldier was sentenced last week in connection with a February brawl outside a popular Itaewon nightclub that left one soldier with a life-threatening stab wound to the chest.

Pfc. Antonio Webb, a cook with the 1st Replacement Company, was convicted Monday of two specifications of assault consummated by battery for punching a soldier four times and for pushing and pinning another soldier against a car outside the King Club. He was sentenced to 45 days of confinement and reduction in rank to E-2.

Webb said in court that he joined the melee in an “adrenaline rush” but remembered little of the night because he had been drinking. The fight had started inside the club after someone pulled out a knife, he said.  [Stars & Stripes]

Some readers may remember that last month a soldier was actually acquitted of attempted murder in this case.  Nevertheless the incident is what help lead to the USFK commander General Walter Sharp implementing the mandatory weekend training to address indiscipline issues within the ranks on the peninsula.

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