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To: Catspaw
To my question:

Have you ever been in the service?

You replied:

Have you?

As a matter of fact, I have. 3 years, from August 1968-July 1971.

From the way you answered my question with a question, I will assume that you have not. Not having been in uniform, you are understandably trying to correlate the civilian justice system with the military system. Let me be the first to tell you: They don't correlate.

"Can you show me the form or cite [sic] in which someone in the Armed Forces waives his or her right to privacy?"

The service is a much different world from the one you're used to. As a matter of fact, one does sign away many rights upon entering the service. The service has its own set of laws, codified in the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military justice), and the laws contained therein do not place a lot of emphasis on one's "rights".

Since there is no "right to privacy" anywhere in the US Constitution, except by broadly interpreting the Fourth Amendment (Search and Seizure), there is no "right to privacy" to waive.

In the military there is no expected privacy. For example, any officer or non commissioned officer can walk into the soldiers barracks and go through every single personal possession he owns. He can do it whenever he wants. Whether or not the owner is present is of no concern or consequence. That's just one example to illustrate the difference in the two systems.
It has to be that way, otherwise there would be chaos. In the military, chaos is not what you need.

So to answer your rather fatuous question directly: No, I can't show you a form or citation (which is what I think you meant to write), but go get yourself a copy of the UCMJ and the US Army Regulations. It's all in there in painstaking detail.

"Can you show me the legal cite [sic] in which someone posting to a website can waive a right to privacy for someone else?"

Sorry, I don't understand the question, nor can I understand it's relationship to privacy in the military.
137 posted on 04/03/2003 7:10:26 PM PST by VMI70 (...but two Wrights made an airplane)
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To: VMI70
Ah, I see (in 1968, my daughter was 3 and I had just experienced two miscarriages that year).

But you have no actual cite that would allow you, for example, to waive Pfc. Jessica Lynch's privacy rights for her.

Thanks. I figured you couldn't.

139 posted on 04/03/2003 7:29:12 PM PST by Catspaw
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