The punishment of a loss of a career is enough a punishment. I could be wrong, but I don’t think that a sargeant would have lost their career over this crime. They might have lost a rank or done many hours of kp or something, so it would have been more reasonable for a harsher punishment to be visited on an enlisted rank.
However, I will never understand the psyche of somebody of such standing to do something so stupid.
I disagree. It’s hard for soldiers to respect a petty thief.
When I was at NTC San Diego around 1985, one of the base protestant chaplains, an LCDR, who often contributed columns to the base newspaper was busted for shoplifting a pair of shoes from the base exchange.
Southern Baptist type, IIRC. He was supposed to show up at PAO that afternoon for some reason, but called instead to tell me he’d been arrested. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Ah’m sorry, Petty offica... Ah won’t be abul t’come bah yo office t’day...”
I don’t think I saw him again after that. I imagine he was out of the Navy pretty quickly.
Three tours of duty maybe, and not a lifer pencil pusher in a state side camp?
There may be much more to this story or maybe there isn’t, but I give military LOTS of slack for mental disposition before I pick nits.
Who is behind militarycorruption.com anyway?
Senior NCOs are a different story (as it should be). An E-7's chances of promotion would be over. If an E-8 or E-9 were this stupid, their commander would "recommend" they retire.
You would be wrong. Things like shoplifting, writing bad checks, and DUI have been "career stoppers" for NCO's for quite some time now, since I was an Army NCO (& I got out in 1987...)
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