[knarf]

55 years old and a Marine Colonel?

Y'don't just snap and become a pervert.

My guess (without reading a THING) is;

Some irate girl friend decided to get back at him and has made accusations he can't deny;

(Did you pick her up and your hand was on her panties ? (every dad has done it and every dad that has, has had a pang of, "Oh shit" BECAUSE of it) .... sign of the times)

I'll wait for more information, but that is my gut reaction.

'Course if the guy DOES turn out to be a perv ... cut it off and teach him to sit.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m in your camp on this one. I’ll await further info.

[Perseverando]

I agree with what you are saying. Angry ex-wife, etc.

However the AWOL charge causes me to question his thinking. I see also that he is being held in the brig.

[TexasGator]

Doesn’t look good for him.

AWOL.

Additional charges found during investigation.

[MrEdd]

When my unit was sent to the Philippines years ago, we only had a few days of liberty. I used that time to see middle and working class areas and I met some local girls which might have lead to marriage had we stayed longer.

Other men went to tourist spots.

We had some devout Christian men who visited some of the local churches.

Still another group hit the clubs and the brothels. This group held a contest to see who could have relations with the youngest girl. One of the folks claimed to have had a twelve year old, with a group of her little friends witnessing her entry into prostitution. Though I reported him to the S2, there wasn't any evidence.

The military is not uniformly comprised of good people. There are martinets who want authority over others which they can't get in civilian life, and there are sex tourists.

I will wait upon the nature of the evidence to evaluate this one.