I did know a guy at Twenty-nine Palms who was given the Marines or jail though. A con man with two restored ‘57 Chevies, one stock and one super modified for racing. He drove around the Midwest racing rich boys for pink slips...until he hit a town where his fawning floozie of the week turned out to be the local judge's daughter.
I’m not arguing about what to give them. We used to give them an extra wool blanket, former Navy issue. Guys who were out of their cells kept a blanket wrapped around them
I was addressing with people who actually said let them freeze.
You should read the article, they won’t even give them an extra blanket or let them buy themselves a sweatshirt let alone give them a jacket or a sleeping bag. In the meantime it is a deep freeze at 34 and below. Even the marines would not allow damaging government property by getting this extreme.
Years ago they sometimes gave people that option enlist or go to jail.