Biography
Sara G. Beining is an Iraq War veteran and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who joined Iraq Veterans Against the War after going absent without leave in opposition to the war. She was arrested on August 26, 2014 after a second absence and held through her December 9 court-martial at Fort Carson, Colorado. A military judge convicted her of desertion terminated by apprehension and absence without leave for more than 30 days, sentenced her to five months of confinement with credit for time served, and ordered a bad-conduct discharge. She was released on December 10, 2014.
The September 2014 account distinguishes a September 14, 2013 arrest on a military warrant and brief jail detention from subsequent off-base housing and office duties at Fort Carson. It reports another Portland arrest on August 27, 2014 followed by confinement in El Paso County Jail. That reported day differs from the August 26 date already recorded for the later prosecution; the source discrepancy is preserved without changing the existing endpoint. Neither her earlier AWOL date nor off-base duties is treated as continuous imprisonment.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister report 536.
