A Texas Army National Guard specialist who was charged with drunk driving in Texas and rape during a deployment to Europe last year pled guilty Wednesday at Fort Hood to one charge each of assault, insubordinate conduct and drunken operation of a motor vehicle.

Spc. Nathaniel Friday, of Mesquite, will spend four months in prison and resume his part-time Army career with a single stripe after the five-hour court-martial session in the Lawrence Williams Judicial Center.

The combat engineer, assigned to 4th Battalion, 133rd Field Artillery Regiment in San Marcos, was initially scheduled to be tried by court-martial on charges relating to both a DUI arrest in Hays County and an alleged pattern of sexual harassment and assault against a fellow National Guard soldier while deployed in Estonia.

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