There are many mitigating and extenuating matters in this case.
SSgt Wuterich stood tall and took all responsibility and has been an exemplary Marine working at Camp Pendleton for over five years, the entire time this has been hanging over him and his family.
No further punishment in warranted in my view, he should be allowed to get on with his life with his three girls and family.
Thanks for the ping Red. Hopefully the judge will take into consideration the three little girls. This Marine has gone through enough at this point.
I’m hoping the judge will see that SSgt Wuterich has more than paid any debt of incarceration by being kept by order at Pendleton for 6 years or so.
I’m hoping he’ll also see that taking the pay of single father with 3 kids is also overkill, since SSgt Wuterich has paid far more in cash and broken family defending himself successfully against far more serious charges.
If anything, I’d accept some kind of community service hours and an administrative separation from service under honorable conditions, at worst ‘general under honorable’.
I would then appeal (even to this president) for a presidential pardon.