I agree. Rape in a war zone should defintely get the max penalty which is death under the UCMJ. As far as pilfering, I never snuck up to the ward room on the midwatch and made a ham sandwich while we were underway. Never.
Of course our shipmate did get caught doing that and got busted from E5 to E4 and then 2 weeks later got his promotion to E6 verified when the results came back. DOH!!! The Captain was former enlisted and had a heart and gave back his E5 chevron and so he got to take the promotion anyway.