It is absolutely stunning for me to read many of the “she deserved it” posts here on Free Republic.
Well, Old Ben is just a lowly civilian puke, but I suspect that disobeying orders (no matter how boneheaded those orders may be) does not sit well with those who have served in the American military.
As a point of reference, I’m a retiree, a veteran of DS/DS and also a Christian of evangelical stripe.
The Bible verse(s) appears to have been what started it, it then appears that her attitude afterwards is what earned her the judgement...
FTA””She was found guilty of failing to go to her appointed place of duty, disrespect toward a superior commissioned officer, and four specifications of disobeying the lawful order of a noncommissioned officer.”
Look, if it’s the regulations, you follow them. If you can’t, then get out.
I had a tag on my emails for quite sometime after 911 that some puke in my company found “objectionable”, it was about traitors.
Instead of coming to me about it, he elevated it up chain and then it came back down to me...I was politely asked to remove it vs. being told to and I did.
In this case, we don’t know if the NCO was polite and respectful in her direction to the Marine or antagonistic. It’s really irrelevant. But anyway you look at it, an NCO gave her what was, by all appearances, a lawful order.
We just can’t have service members disobeying them however much we may disagree...the regulations need to be changed in an orderly manner.