pawnman

Interesting that it says he failed to create a good climate...yet he's still #2/9 SQ/CCs. WTF are numbers 3-9 doing?

Probably. Many of us have done worse while inebriated at last call.

So the fact that you are wearing an American uniform isn't reminder enough?

PCola had an awesome O'club. Students, instructors, vets who would regale you with stories of low-level ingresses into downtown Hanoi...It was a great place. If more clubs were like the one at PCola, then we might not have to listen to our senior leaders bitch about club membership all the time.

The wing-walking is much more challenging on an F-16 than the standard bi-plane.

And he'll probably stay a CMR pilot until his commitment is up, at which point he will be passed over for major and invited to leave.

I don't think that will happen in the days of RIF and force reductions and crack downs on all alcohol use. 20 years ago, when this guy was an LT, you probably could bounce back. I'm frankly surprised that with all the other ridiculous dredging of skeletons lately that this individual wasn't removed from command for his UPT mistake.

Yep. We were ALOing guys at the 18 month point, and the functionals got around the 2-year TOS requirement by making the RNLTD exactly two years from the date they checked into the squadron.

Just a few months ago.

GTC. Second-hand, so with caveats, but apparently he put more on the GTC than his TDY actually cost. He was unable to pay off the whole amount right away, so he worked out a deal with his supervisor to pay it back over a couple paychecks. Someone higher up in the chain decided this was unacceptable and had him put up for a court martial for abusing the card. The star piece of evidence was a receipt from a burger place showing he purchased three hamburgers. Since he was buying food for other people using his GTC, they found him guilty. Turns out the guy was a super-star prior to this, multiple awards and deployments, and the reason he couldn't pay it off right away was because he had custody of his own kids from a previous marriage, and his new wife's kids (total of 5, I think).

I've heard the same. Too big picture, unwilling to crush people for minor mistakes (like the guy they convicted of fraud for ordering THREE hamburgers on his GTC).

Maybe if the clubs had decent food and service, and were remotely fun to hang out at, then they wouldn't be in the red and the WG/CC wouldn't be trying to figure out how to keep it open.

At my current base, what I have typically heard is two-three flyers in a group of 6-12 jurors. And usually, they aren't enough to stop the insanity train from rolling.

Plus, leadership forces them to hold the events at the club.

From what I've seen, I'm not sure I'd trust the court martial system either. A dozen shoes all screaming about making an example out of you.

Even being accused will ruin your career.

On the other hand, corporate America could really not give a shit what I do away from work, in most cases including a DUI.

There was a time when we were proud of our uniforms. Now we wear them when we are shamed into it. Quite a long fall.

Sounds about right.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-an-army-veteran-and-my-benefits-are-too-generous/2014/06/06/5e8db2ec-eb35-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html Retired reserve Army Lt Col says his benefits are too generous. Of course, he goes on to say he never deployed during his 23 year career...so maybe he's got a different perspective.

Certainly looks like he could use one.

None of which matters....even if he is guilty of everything he is accused of, he's an American soldier, who deserves to face American justice, not be left in captivity indefinitely. Meh. Does anyone think they weren't already trying this crap?

I keep seeing this idea that "we don't negotiate with terrorists". I'm pretty sure we've been negotiating with the Taliban to halt the fighting for the last several years. Hell, they have their own embassy in Qatar to make negotiations easier.

Five years later. That is a very patient man.

Do we really think that any of the people we're fighting in Afghanistan would not have already been doing their best to take any one of us alive? If anything, I think it will increase the odds that if you are captured over there you'll come back alive, instead of the summary beheadings that seemed so common in the opening days of the war.