So I posted a post a few days ago and got some responses so I am sharing another story that happened with me around 6 or 7 years ago.
Little essential background. In where I come from, males have mandatory service in the military. Usually, people go at the age of 18 after high school but if you go to college (university where I come from) they postpone your military service until you're done (you can't pull this card forever to avoid military service because at the age of 28 they take you regardless of educational status). They wait for you because they get more technical labor this way for cheap (think engineers, doctors, pharmacists, nurses, etc). I went to serve in Air Force after finishing medical school so I had a license to practice as a doctor. They basically have a doctor for cheap.
I served in a base that had on average somewhere between 500 to 1000 personnel at a point. Since we were close to a big military hospital we had a very humble clinic. There were 2 doctors (I am one of them) and two nurses. Every week a doctor and a nurse will stay there the whole week and see patients and dispense medications etc and then we switch with the other two and get a whole week off. Pretty good deal but the clinic was relatively busy and most of the personnel were younger than me (I was around 26-27 by the time I finished medical school but most were between 18-21 years old). Of course, we had many more senior people in the base I am just talking about the majority.
The clinic was officially open for walk-ins all day every day between 7 am and 4 pm. After 4 pm it is emergencies only. The only problem is defining an emergency is very subjective. We would get people late at night just for a simple cough or something very simple and they just say they felt it is an emergency situation. It is what it is and it's part of the job.
One of those days someone knocked on my room really hard at 3:40 am ( our sleeping room is the next room to the clinic in case there is actually an emergency so everyone knew where to find us). I wake up and there is this younger soldier telling me he had some diarrhea and his security shift ends in ~2 hours and he needs something to help. He could have easily switched his shift or went to the bathroom couple of times instead of waking me up so early. Please bear in mind we open at 7 and I am up at 6 every day. Yes we are available for emergencies but we already work 7 am-4 pm straight every day and for order for that to happen
... keep reading on reddit ➡I found out recently that an old supervisor I had who was a total asshole to me is getting court martialed. The dates for his court martial are on the JAG docket and I want to go watch it. Before I buy plane tickets to fly to his base I want to make sure I’m allowed to get into the court room. I also want him to see me eating popcorn or something like that because I am petty. Will they let me in and if so is the snack thing a bit much?
10 years ago when I was a stupid kid and got myself involved with some idiots in the Army that thought they could steal my car, and I didn't report them, because I was an idiot and was afraid of one of the members, and thought that because I had let one of them barrow the car over Christmas that regardless I would in trouiibble. Ended up being charged one count of Conspiracy, one count of False Statements, one count of Attempts and Failure to Report, in violation of Articles, 80, 81, 86 and 107, ( the FTR was tacked on because in the year+ while waiting for trail who isn't going to miss one of 9 daily formations.)
At this point I believe I can factually based on phone records, that I was not involved in the conspiracy, and that the 2 other "members of my conspiracy," exclusively talked to each other, via telephone.
This evidence, the phone records, were never allowed to be used in the trial, and my lawyers, Civilian and JAG at the time were bad at best. Other things like my Lawyer was never able to get to CID recordings to work in the copies they gave him, and so on, had me just plead guilty. I realize at this point I should of had an option to take a chapter over the Court Martial but I was also never offered that.
I also had a "confession" that was forced, and written by CID, but when i brought up that the confession was not written by me and instead the CID agent changed everything and had me sign it, this was dismissed by my Civilian lawyer.
While I did report the car stolen, even though The army claim it wasn't stolen, by that time it had been factually stolen from the solders that had taken possession from me. Making a True statement. And at that time I had asked the Solider that I loaned the car to call his friend and return the car.
Can i request that the military look into this new evidence? Can this be used to appeal to the Army Review Board?
Just want to get a guage for what is acceptable punishments as far as hard labor, what isnt, and hear some stories if people want to share.
Edit: should have added court martial or NJP, I realized that is a much more likely thing to come from NJP than court martial.
I Understand Dick took the court martial in the show instead of non judicial punishment but did this really happen? In the show he said he was 15 minutes late for latrine duty.
Over the course of the show about how many times would a character have realistically been court-martialed or suffered some kind of criminal penalty? Like when O'Neill pulled a gun on that guy who orchestrated blowing up the rocket in Red Sky, would he have gotten away with that?
Anyone know what would happen to a M*A*S*H officer who defies an order?
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