An Alaska-based aviation technician who was expelled from the Coast Guard Academy for becoming a father will get his degree as part of a legal settlement, his attorneys said Thursday.
FILE - The new hats and shoulder bars for the graduates sit on a table before the start of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 141st Commencement Exercises, May 18, 2022, in New London, Conn. A U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet who was expelled for becoming a father will get his degree as part of a legal settlement, his attorneys said Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
“No one should ever have to choose between the honor of being a Coast Guard cadet and the honor of being a parent,” Olson said Thursday in a statement released by his lawyers. He said he was “thankful the academy has reached a settlement that recognizes my right to both.”Olson was expelled under an academy regulation that barred cadets from having “any maternal or paternal obligation or responsibility,” according to the lawsuit. Olson’s lawyers said the policy still stands.
Along the way, Olson enlisted in the Coast Guard, and the couple married and had another child, the attorneys said. He is now an aviation maintenance technician, stationed in Alaska.
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