Campus Activists Want University to Fire Security Official Who Served at Guantanamo Bay

Campus Activists Want University to Fire Security Official Who Served at Guantanamo Bay
A military officer stands guard near the entrance to Camp VI at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on March 30, 2013. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Student activists at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte are calling for the removal of a school security official who has been serving at Guantanamo Bay, going so far as to call the decorated veteran “a war criminal.”

Retired Army Colonel John V. Bogdan was appointed as the UNC-Charlotte’s associate vice chancellor for safety and security last December, according to student newspaper Niner Times. Bogdan’s Linkdin profile suggests that this is his first-ever civilian job after an impressive 34-year-long military career, during which he held positions at the Pentagon and Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, among many others.