I always have these mixed emotions of demotion and yet still giving the military member their retirement/pension.
I know they served, but, you do something wrong, how does that entitle you to benefits that other's have sweat or given their lives for and their fellow military member gives a half ass job.
Best shut up and be quiet.
Karpinski did not herself do anything criminally wrong, and I believe that this is usually what predicates loss of pensions and benefits. Her reduction in rank will have far more of a "sting" to her than the loss of a few hundred dollars a month (which is really all she would lose in being demoted from a general to a colonel).