This case has been up before. Last time it came out that radio traffic and other evidence did a lot to refute the claims made by the whiner that started this crap.
Either something else got dredged up out of the abyss of invented evidence or someone’s just doing old fashioned witch hunting.
This stinks of a witch hunt, to paraphrase your words. The precedent could immobilize our military if random judges (think ninth circuit) could grant themselves jurisdiction over all military personnel.