The comments at the website are worth reading. As a retired Lt Col, I’m afraid the sad truth is that the UCMJ really is the Uniformed Code of Enlisted or Junior Officer Justice.
Can you imagine what would happen to an E-5 who funneled a few thousand dollars to support his adultery?
I’d also really like to see what the folks around him were doing, including his commanding officer...nobody NOTICED? YGBSM!
Flogging is way too good for this scumbag. In about 1980 I had a good friend in Germany lose his career due to being charged with DUI, but found not guilty. Just the fact that he was charged was enough for his “report card” to be less than stellar. This soldier had all the potential in the world to head to OCS or be one fine 1SG or CSM, but he was forced to ETS due to a bar to reenlistment.