UPDATE: According to the Stars & Stripes Hutchinson had to admitted to lying to get out of the deployment:

In the statement, Army Forces Command disputed that version of events. “The investigation revealed evidence … that she didn’t intend to deploy to Afghanistan with her unit and deliberately sought ways out of the deployment.” Hutchinson admitted to lying about the circumstances, officials said.  [Stars & Stripes]

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Original Posting: Via a reader tip, news has now come out that US Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson has been demoted and discharged from the Army just like expected:

A single mother from Oakland has been discharged from the Army for refusing to leave her infant son behind to go to Afghanistan, but she will not be court-martialed, her attorney said Thursday.

Alexis Hutchinson, 21, had faced criminal charges at a court-martial for refusing to accompany her unit when it deployed in November. Although that is no longer a prospect, Hutchinson has been demoted from specialist to private and will lose all military and veteran benefits, said her attorney, Rae Sue Sussman of San Francisco.

She said Hutchinson had been given an other-than-honorable discharge.  [SF Gate]

For those that haven’t been following this story I highly recommend reading my prior postings on this:

• Is Soldier Mom Right for Refusing Deployment?
• How the Soldier Mom Story is Being Manipulated By Anti-Military Activists
• War Resister Group Comments On Alexis Hutchinson Controversy
• Army Decides to File Charges In the Alexis Hutchinson Case

Contrary to popular belief she actually received pretty typical punishment for missing movement and going AWOL. The only thing that she got off light on was that she didn’t have to travel to Afghanistan to face a court martial.  It is also important to point out that she was not court martialed for a failed family care plan, she was court martialed for other offenses like missing movement.  Her lefty apologists have continuously tried to frame this case as the Army punishing her for being a single mom, which is simply not true.

Anyway I am sure her lefty apologists will still be making excuses for her even after this statement:

Kevin Larson, spokesman at the Hunter Army Airfield outside Savannah, Ga., where Hutchinson is posted, has said that her commanders offered her child care options but that she refused them.

Base commanders said in a statement Thursday that “the investigation revealed evidence, from both other soldiers and from Pvt. Hutchinson herself, that she didn’t intend to deploy to Afghanistan with her unit and deliberately sought ways out of the deployment.”

I have long suspected that there was something suspicious about this story because of the fact that I have personally dealt with helping soldiers with family care plans and even had to chapter someone before for a failed care plan.  There is absolutely nothing unusual about Hutchinson’s case other than she missed movement and then ambushed the Army with a bunch of pro-bono left wing anti-military lawyers with ties to George Soros.

It is too bad the Army cannot release the sworn statements from her and members of her unit that show that she had no intention of ever deploying to Afghanistan because she and her lefty apologists will just go around and say all the accusations are untrue.

Larson said the Army had evidence that Hutchinson, regardless of her family situation, would have resisted deploying “by any means.” He said commanders decided a court-martial would be too disruptive to the Army, requiring soldiers now in Afghanistan to return to the U.S. to testify.

“This case wasn’t about a soldier having to choose between her duty to the nation and her family,” Larson said. “There is evidence both from Pvt. Hutchinson and her fellow soldiers to indicate she had no intentions of deploying.”

Sussman denied that Hutchinson was exploiting her status as a single-mom to get out of going to Afghanistan.

“She was willing to deploy, and was ready to do that if her mother had not backed out of taking care of her child,” she said.  [CBS]

Her apologists are already complaining about her loss of benefits due to the Other Than Honorable Discharge she received:

Hutchinson’s mother, Angelique Hughes, was thrilled with the recent news.

“I’m very happy,” Hughes told Truthout via telephone from her home in Oakland. “I just found out myself. I’m glad it worked out.”

However, Hughes was concerned about the fact that due to Hutchinson’s “Other Than Honorable” discharge, she will not maintain any of her benefits, like medical care for herself and her infant son.

“I don’t know why they didn’t give her an honorable discharge,” Hughes added. “Other single parents they’ve discharged got one. I’m glad they are letting her out, but now she lacks enough benefits … so it’s going to be a hard situation for her.”  [Truthout]

Once again you see how her apologists in the media are trying to frame the issue?  She wasn’t discharged for a failed family care plan, she was discharged for missing movement and other offenses.  If she just had a failed family care plan she would have honorably discharged like other parents in her situation.

Keep in mind none of this is about single parents in the military or failed family care plans.  As I have shown over, & over & over & over & over & over, & over, & over again the anti-military left is more interested in creating perceptions of the military even if they are unfounded because in their minds the ends justifies the means.  They are against the war in Afghanistan and are more then willing to manipulate a 21 year old specialist to advance their anti-military agenda.