[Lucky Dog]

If someone is patriotic and brave enough to want to defend their country, then they should do so.

Perhaps you would like to explain why the services do not take convicted felons that are " patriotic and brave enough to want to defend their country." It couldn't have anything to do with good order and discipline, could it?

As I noted in an earlier post, the UCMJ has been established specifically to promote that good order and discipline. Consequently, those who are caught willfully violating it are disrupting "good order and discipline." Such disruptions are counterproductive to the military's reason for existence. Therefore, it (that to which you were referring) makes perfect sense.

[Red Badger]

Good order and discipline? Obviously you've never had to direct a Broadway Musical..........and neither have I.........