HUFFINGTON
10.07.12
COMING HOME
COURTESY OF JAMIE BEAVERS
as an Army reserve captain. Dugan
has the rolling gait of a veteran
paratrooper and the cut-throughthe-BS attitude of a combat veteran. When veterans come into his
court they get no slack; in fact he is
tougher on veterans than on defendants who haven’t served. But he
understands where they’ve been.
In Iraq, a 19 year-old female soldier in Dugan’s unit was decapitated in an IED blast. “What does that
do to the people near her?” he said.