Court-Martial

"The matter started with Semi Bird's altercation with a racist. Bird was put through this standard military judicial process. He left the military with an honorable discharge and later joined the Army special forces and earning a top secret clearance."

Hawaii Marine Courts-Martial Report August 23, 1984

LCpt. Semi M. Bird, Comm- SptCo., 1st Marine Brigade, was convicted during a special court- martial on Aug. 3 of disrespect to a superior NCO and unlawfully striking an NCO. He was sentenced to one month confinement at hard labor, and reduced to private. 

In a telephone interview on Sept. 4, Bird told the Tri-Cities Observer that an Aug. 23, 1984, article in the Hawaii Marine describing Semi M. Bird’s special courts-martial, concerned not the candidate, but his first cousin with the same name.

Bird explained that Misipati was a common name in Samoa, and that he and his cousin were both in the Marines at the same time. A Google search by the Observer at the time indicated that a second Misipati Bird does live in Hawaii.

Why not admit and own it? It was a 1984 nothing burger that was the beginning of a long string of mistruths and deceptions about his past.

TRI-CITIES OBSERVER: Before Semi Bird admitted he was court-martialed, he denied it.

Read more: https://tricitiesobserver.com/2022/05/16/before-semi-bird-admitted-he-was-court-martialed-he-denied-it/