The very existence of an investigation is a clear message that only partisanship on behalf of the left will be tolerated in the U.S. military. [More]
Here's the part that I'd like some input on:
If Clark receives an administrative reprimand after all this, it will either stop his advancement until he is forced out of the Marines or force him out of the Marines simply with an administrative separation.
Wouldn't he have the right to refuse and demand a court-martial trial? Would there then be a potential for this?
If they are tried and convicted in the appeals court, the case reaches the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. If a service member is convicted in this court, they would likely receive a dishonorable discharge, a bad-conduct discharge, or, in the case of an officer, a dismissal.Because we know what that could mean.
[Via Mack H]
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A lot of people don't realize how fragile a military career is, especially for enlisted. I worked a rape case when I was in the military in which the accuser made a false accusation in order to keep her fiancee from realizing that she had slept with another man. After about 16 months, the young man was exonerated. However, his military career was over. During that 16 months, he was either confined or on penal detail, and so he never got any of his tickets punched, never got training, etc. The military is a pyramid system, in which a select percent of each grade gets promoted to the next. If you don't get promoted within a certain time frame, you get fired. This young man, who was completely innocent, had missed so much time that it was impossible for him to meet the requirements for promotion before he would be separated. So, he was out on the basis of a known false accusation. The fact that the accuser was eventually *also* charged with a crime for her false accusation changed nothing.
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