{"id":24827,"date":"2022-06-25T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/25\/army-private-admits-plotting-attack-on-his-own-unit-ahead-of-deployment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:30:11","slug":"army-private-admits-plotting-attack-on-his-own-unit-ahead-of-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/06\/25\/army-private-admits-plotting-attack-on-his-own-unit-ahead-of-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Army private admits bizarre plot to attack his unit on deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A U.S. Army private assigned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/06\/22\/us-soldier-plotted-with-satanic-neo-nazis-to-ambush-his-own-unit-overseas-feds-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">173rd Airborne Brigade<\/a> pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he plotted to murder members of his unit in an attack that he planned to carry out in 2020 on behalf of a group that promotes extreme violence to bring about the demise of Western civilization, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/06\/22\/us-soldier-plotted-with-satanic-neo-nazis-to-ambush-his-own-unit-overseas-feds-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Phelan Melzer, 24, <\/a>of Louisville, Kentucky, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court. 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