“He once told me there was a valid military reason that adultery was a crime in the Air Force.” I was an Army JAG and I would be really interested to know what military reason that is.
We never got deeper into the discussion but I imagine it had something to do with morale.
It is a crime in the Army also, or did that go away with acceptance of gays? The military reason is obvious: it is dishonorable and undermines soldiers’ relationships with their fellow soldiers and leaders.
The reason for adultery is so someone else keeps their hands off a married spouse while the service member goes off to war, goes out to sea on deployments, goes TDY/TAD, etc.
The absent military member doesn’t need another distraction from doing their duty, nor should a family be busted up because someone decides to vector in to the scene and redo the casting.
How about unit cohesion when the person in the adjacent maintenance bay or squadron is screwing your spouse—how would that play in Punxsutawney??
An Article 134 of UCMJ violation of some kind? Conduct unbecoming or order and discipline issues?
Just asking, no idea...
Because adulterers are deceitful and treacherous. They are vulnerable to blackmail, and they are just plain liars. It’s not good to have people like that in positions of leadership or trust. Thanks for asking.
Have no idea on military reasons for dismissal for adultery (my long lost aunts, uncles, and cousins in France and Australia who we’re rather sure exist from my grandfather’s tours in WWI & II might argue for it...), but I do have a client who is former Army JAG — now working private law defending servicemen/women under JAG prosecution.
I think she finds defending them to be the more profitable venture.
First, there's the point about the military needing to be absolutely confident that an officer will tell the truth, especially in combat situations, and the saying "If he will lie to his wife, then he will lie to you too". Military people need to be trusted. They are entrusted with vital secrets, and millions of dollars of equipment (and occasionally nuclear weapons). If they can't be trusted, then the military has a problem.
Second, it's obvious that you are a woman, and have never been in combat. Otherwise it would be obvious to you what the down-side is of somebody finding out you've been screwing his spouse, at a time when that person has LOTS of opportunities to arrange your death.
In my 24 years of Army time, I found JAG officers to be quite like many politicians. Living in a bubble and little idea of what small unit cohesion entails. Porking suboridnates (or being porked} leads to morale problems because of assumed favortism.