[xzins]

That wasn’t the issue at all, and that’s where Lakin made his mistake.

He thought the issue was the birth of Obama.

The issue was did he or did he not miss movement. Those of us with military experience tried to say that months ago, but we were shouted down.

If they had charged him with insult to his commander, then he might have been able to get his info in (which I kind of doubt.)

They kept it simple. They charged him with missing movement. He did. It’s indisputable that he did. And sadly, a good man is going down for a lapse in judgment.

I still hold out hope they’ll be lenient with him.

[verity]

I cannot understand how an educated and intelligent person with that many years of service had a lapse of good judgment and allowed himself to become a pawn.

[P-Marlowe]

I’m thinking that a deployment order is more in the nature of a human resouces issue than act act of war issue. He was being moved from one. Facility to another. He was not being asked to engage in battle. Had he been ordered into a combat situation, he could have claimed conscientious objector status which might have gotten him booted from the military, but at least he would have had a chance to put on a defense. Here he was being moved from one location to another, which is an administrative order and not an executive order.

Just my thoughts.