Okay, we’ll hold your hand and walk you through it. Perhaps these ideas of morality and accountability are foreign to you. As is the idea of looking it up yourself.
Article 133 deals with officers, midshipman or cadets who are convicted of behaving in a manner unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman. Such a service member will be punished as directed by a court martial. Here 'officer' includes commissioned officers, midshipmen and cadets, both men and women.
There are many offenses that come under the ambit of Article 133. Here are a few examples:
- Making false official statements.
- Dishonorable failure in paying debts.
- Cheating during an exam.
- Opening a letter belong to another person and reading it, without authority.
- Using defamatory of insulting language against another officer when the officer is present or about the officer to another service member.
- Being drunk and acting in a disorderly fashion in public places.
- Associating in public with persons who are known to be prostitutes.
- Committing or attempt to commit crimes where moral turpitude is present.
- Failure of the officer, without cause, to support his family.