Army Officer Testifies He Had Consensual Sex With Fellow Soldier

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FORT RUCKER, Ala. (AP) - An Army officer accused of raping a soldier in her barracks room testified Wednesday that a night of dancing, flirting and kissing led to consensual sex, not rape.

First Lt. Mike Hall, 35, told a military judge at his court-martial that 1st Lt. Jennifer Dyer invited him into her room and that, during two short episodes of intercourse, he stopped both times when she said "No."

Dyer, 26, has accused Hall of forcing her to have sex twice last August at Camp Shelby in Mississippi.

The defense contends Dyer, a New Jersey National Guardsman at the time, made up the rape story to get out of the Army and avoid being sent to Iraq.