Biography
Randy Rowland, identified as Stephen Rowland in the official court-martial record, was a U.S. Army medic and one of the Presidio 27. After the Army rejected his conscientious-objector application and ordered him to Vietnam, he went absent without leave and publicly surrendered at the Presidio following the October 12, 1968 GI and Veterans March for Peace. Inside the stockade, he helped organize the October 14 peaceful sit-down after a guard killed fellow prisoner Richard Bunch and amid protests over brutal conditions. The Army convicted Rowland of mutiny and imposed 15 months at hard labor on June 6, 1969. On June 30, 1970, the Court of Military Review dismissed the mutiny conviction, found willful disobedience, and reduced the sentence to eight months. In a later first-person interview, Rowland recalled spending about a year and a half imprisoned from 1968 to 1970 before returning to antiwar organizing.
The November 13, 1981 Revolutionary Worker lists Randy Rowland, identified as one of the Presidio 27, among endorsers of the Mass Proletarian War Crimes Tribunal of U.S. Imperialism. The endorsement supplies political activity and contemporary identification; it does not establish a new custody admission or release. Source: https://bannedthought.net/USA/RCP/RW/1981/RW130-English-OCR-sm.pdf#page=14
