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Rob Campos is kicked out of JAG school after gropping an officer
Posted by david on 2003-06-09
According to a recent article at the Smoking Gun, Rob Campos, the star of NBC's For Love Or Money, had his military career in the Marine Corps derailed after he “drunkenly groped the breasts of a Navy officer after barging uninvited into the woman's dormitory room, early one morning.”

The incident occurred in mid-1999 at the Newport Naval Station in Rhode Island. Campos was a young attorney in training with a Marine Corps Judge Advocate General (JAG) unit. As a result of the incident, Campos was expelled from the JAG training program, slapped with an administrative punishment, and ordered to enroll in a substance abuse treatment program. The incident effectively ended his military career, and Campos left the Marine Corps at the rank of second lieutenant 20 months before his contract expired.

The Producers were in the dark about the blemish on Campos’ military career. And, early Friday, the Producers of the show pulled Campos’ bio from the NBC Web site. In the bio, Campos is reported to have been a JAG attorney, but Campos never made it through the 10-week training program. Hence, he never became a JAG attorney. Needless to say, if the Producers had known about his jaded past, Campos would NOT have been given the opportunity to star in the Reality TV series.

The Smoking Gun interviewed Campos’ victim, who did not report the matter to military police. The unnamed woman said that she was asleep in her barracks when she heard a knock at the door. When she opened the door, Campos rushed in, closing the door behind him. While the woman knew Campos--he lived on a different floor of the building--she did not socialize with him. Once inside the room, Campos advanced on the woman, then 27, and began grabbing her breasts. She resisted his advances, and the 5' 4" woman drove a knee into Campos’ groin, which dropped him to the floor. "Then I bolted out of the door," the woman said. Campos remained in the room and went to the woman’s bathroom where he proceeded to vomit.

Campos was immediately yanked from the JAG course, seven weeks before the program's completion. When confronted, Campos explained that he was drunk and could not recall what had happened in the woman's room.

Later, Campos said that he telephoned her and that she had given him directions to her room. The woman was not too keen on pressing charges, so the military just reprimanded Campos and kicked him out of JAG school. If he had completed the 10-week JAG program, he would have automatically been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. But, he was kicked out before he could finish is training, and never advanced beyond the rank of second lieutenant.

Campos served in the Marine Corps for 22 months before he was discharged. After being kicked out of JAG school, he spent the remainder of his time working as a coordinator of a unit that helped enlisted personnel and military retirees do their taxes.

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