At 11:47 AM Wednesday 6/1/2005, Dave Land wrote:
On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Little-Used Punishment
A senior officer's loss of a star is a punishment seldom used, and then
usually for the most serious offenses, such as dereliction of duty or
command failures, adultery or misuse of government funds or equipment.
Am I the only one surprised to find adultery on this list of "most
serious offenses" for which this sanction can be applied? I can see that
it's a problem if it leads to a dereliction of duty, command failure, or
misuse of gov't funds or equipment or so forth. I realize that this is
just the article author's list, but I suspect that he didn't make it up
out of whole cloth. I would be willing to bet that other serious
offenses, such as murder, drug abuse, prostitution and so forth would
qualify as well.
Far be it from me to minimize the personal costs of adultery, but I'm
not sure how that one (serious, but personal) failing rises to the same
level as, for example, dereliction of duty.
Thoughts?
Have you ever been in the US military?
-- Ronn! :)
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