Nick Bickle
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Nicholas "Nick" Bickle was a Navy SEAL who worked as a consultant on Dark of the Moon as well as appearing onscreen as a member of NEST. After interning for U.S. Senator Max Cleland, he enlisted in the Navy in 2004 and following which he did two tours in Iraq and was for a time a warfare tactics instructor at Naval Amphibious Base in California.[1] He was arrested in November 2010 with two other men and later found guilty of smuggling weapons and explosives from Iraq back to the US.[2] After his conviction, Bickle was ignobly discharged in November 2011, below a dishonorable discharge.[3] In July 2012, he was sentenced to 17½ years in prison.[4]
Acting roles
[edit]Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ MilitaryCorruption.com, "ACCUSED NAVY SEAL A HERO, OR ARMS SMUGGLER?", 2010
- ↑ Carri Geer Thevenot, Las Vegas Review-Journal, "Service, freedom will end for convicted SEAL", 2011/11/19
- ↑ Doug McMurdo, Las Vegas Review-Journal, "Ex-SEAL convicted of arms trafficking ignobly discharged", 2011/12/23
- ↑ Ken Ritter, Associated Press, "Ex-Navy SEAL gets nearly 18 years in weapons case", 2012/07/17
