Good “Justin” I HATE YOU GUTS! I am DAMN Glad YOU will never be an Officer in MY MILITARY!
We are known by the company we keep. Why was he out there that night in the middle of a riot?
Can he make the right decision in a split second?
No. He cannot.
Actions have consequences.
Justin is an adult who helped destroy property in the middle of a riot...for Joe Paterno, of all things.
He has no business receiving a commission.
“He spent part of his summer in jail.”
C’mon, who hasn’t?
(ducking...)
Just wow.
So the Penn St. riots killed this punk's dream -- and NOT his own destructive acts of vandalism?
What a load...
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sorry. no sympathy here. nobody forced him to do what he did, it was his own free will. actions have consequences, especially if you’re supposed to be seeking a career where you go about carrying weapons.
this is a weeding out process.
Well, Dad, then your son should not have pled guilty and fought the charges. In fact, as a future officer in training, he should have had the brain power not to be there at all.
Hopefully he and his dad will stay on this and press for the prosecution of Spanier. He and his gay agenda for PSU should not get a pass. He was part of the cover-up and needs to do some time, along with the other accomplices.
ROTC was correct to boot him. He showed lousy judgement and would have made a poor officer.
He’s a whiner to boot.
At one point Strine and his friend, Christina Assainte, found themselves in a large crowd moving toward a WTAJ-TV news van
With the vehicle already on two wheels and going over, Strine placed his palms on the hood. Four seconds later, the van was on its side. But that's all it took for police and prosecutors to charge him with felony counts of riot and criminal mischief
Yep, it's that simple kids - overturning vehicles as part of a mob is just the excuse the authorities need to lable you as a rioter. Better watch out.
Don’t go to stupid places at stupid times and do stupid things with stupid people.
On the other hand: “He didn’t challenge the sanctions because Penn State warned him that if he did, he could wind up being penalized more severely.”
I really don’t like that crap where one is threatened for attempting to defend oneself.
No snowflake ever felt responsible for an avalanche.
"Being made"? Like you were just standing there and the Riot Fairy came down and touched you with her magic Conduct Unbecoming wand?
All I wanted to do was serve my country, and now I can't because of one little mistake that was caught on tape.
Time for a little talk with the recruiter, son, if you want it badly enough.
There are plenty of officers and enlisted men in the military who have done far worse. People just get off on expressing their moral outrage over anything related to the Penn State situation. It doesn’t sound like anything unfair has happened to the kid. He was involved and he pled down to avoid felony charges. He can’t apply to join the military while he’s on probation and he can’t join at all without a waiver and an interview process, so booting him out of ROTC only makes sense. If you can’t complete the ROTC program and you can’t enlist in the military as required, then you have to pay back the scholarship money just like everyone else who leaves ROTC. If he didn’t want any of that to happen to him, then he shouldn’t have plead.
That being said, when he probation is up, he can apply for a waiver and go from there. He won’t graduate until at least 2013. If the military is truly his dream, he can wait until 2 years after graduation to give it another shot.
Sometimes, titty be tough.
Looks to me that the Army managed to ‘weed ot’ another Manning before he could do some real damage.