Actually, my memory says that enlisted man was somewhere within Lt Flynn's command. Even if my memory is incorrect, the AF still enforced strict anti-fraternization rules that the Army (at that time) did not.
Here's the real issue, though.
You've got a lonely, married GI in Iraq. He hears that his wife is fooling around with someone else back at the home base. It seriously distracts him in the midst of a deadly environment, and could even render him so inattentive that it costs his life. If wife is running around with a civilian, that's one thing. But if it's with a soldier, then the military will do something about it. It ruins good order and morale for that kind of thing to go on. It ruins it not only for the soldier involved but for every young buck who hears about it and begins to suspect the same of his wife. Remember, even in the animal kingdom, the young bucks are extremely jealous of their females.
On the other side of the ledger, you've got a wife at home who hears her man is running around with some other woman in a combat zone. The woman is probably a soldier, too. The wife gets frantic and shares it with other wives who live a miserable existence not trusting anything the rear detachment commander tries to do for them. One or more of them react with "retributive infidelity," that variety that is intended as a "get even" gesture. Soldiers hear about the infidelity, get distracted, and are easier targets for the enemy.
It destroys morale of the soldiers on the line to discover lack of trust and rampant jealousy on the part of their spouse back home.
Former chief of chaplains Patrick Hessians coined a phrase I really liked: "There's a thin line between the home front and the front line." It's absolutely true.
The adultery charge is for very good morale/discipline reasons and should be enforced. Usually it is handled by non-judicial UCMJ, so this article is slightly wrong. It is true that it is seldom brought up as a judicial issue unless tacked on to other charges.
And one of his successors (I can't remember which one) said, "Watch out for SAM. He'll get ya every time."
SAM = Sex - Alcohol - Money
As a military brat, I saw the effects of adultery on the "base family" and it definitely affected morale.
Yes, the world of themilitary is different, and in a good way.
It still takes seriously such ideas of honor and fidelity.
I'm glad to see this hypocrite and traitor, Capt. Yee, outed for the disgrace he was to the chaplaincy. (OK, it is his alleged conduct that is at issue here.)
Sadly, he is not the first chaplain to have commited adultery, but as Muslims think they are so morally superior to the rest of us, I say, HAH!!!!!