On Veterans Day - The President Should Correct Military Injustices

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On Veterans Day, the President should correct military injustices

Nov. 8, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging action by President Donald Trump to correct military injustices on Veterans Day in three cases of severe sentencing of service members:

“President Trump is reportedly considering taking executive action to disapprove of severe military disciplinary action against a number of American servicemen who have been tried in military court for acting to defend themselves or their fellow warriors in contrast to dangerous, politically correct rules of engagement.

“It is the sincere hope of Americans for Limited Government that the President will correct any injustices which have been done by taking action on Veteran’s Day to fully restore the rights and privileges of those American military men who have been wrongly convicted. It is a travesty when anyone is unjustly tried and convicted, but it is significantly worse when the victim is someone who voluntarily puts themselves in harm’s way to protect the very freedoms which they have been denied.

“President Trump examining and acting upon the cases mentioned in the November 5, 2019 letter from Representatives Louie Gohmert and Duncan Hunter, Jr. of the Congressional Warriors Caucus on Veteran’s Day would send a clear message to those who are defending our nation that they will not become victims of a politically correct system which put the lives of them and their colleagues at undue risk.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2019/11/on-ve...ry-injustices/

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Maybe Soldiers Have Rights After All?
By: Nicole E. Jaeger - Scholarly Commons Law
RE: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwe...ext=jclc;Maybe

This document is 38 pages long. Too long for this thread to be posted but is available by clicking the link RE: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwe...ext=jclc;Maybe

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Another article you may find interesting: Can be found in the Blue Jacket Manual as well.

8 military punishments that wouldn't fly in the civilian world
By: Tahlia Y. Burton - Task & Purpose
RE: https://www.businessinsider.com/8-mi...n-world-2016-8

If you screw up your cashier duties at McDonald’s, chances are your boss won’t smoke you, unless he wants a harassment suit brought against him. In the military world, we live by a different set of rules and laws, one in which we forfeit many of our previously enjoyed rights and freedoms.

The U.S. armed forces follow the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a set of legal conventions that was born from the 69 Articles of War in 1775. Although our current rendition of the UCMJ wasn’t signed into law until 1950 by President Harry S. Truman, it sure feels as though some of the punishments contained within its bindings date back to colonial times.

Here are eight punishments that wouldn’t fly in the civilian world.

1. FOOD Denial

Confinement on “diminished rations” — or a substantially limited amount of food — may be imposed as punishment upon personnel in paygrade E-3 or below, attached to, or embarked in a vessel.

2. Forfeiture of all pay and allowances

In the civilian world, your place of employment can’t garnish your wages, dock your pay, or force you to work without pay for poor performance.

In certain instances, if you lose your company a ton of money or break some expensive equipment, you can be found liable, but your employer is required to pay you for all of the hours that you work.

In the military, however, the UCMJ allows the military to take the pay and allowances of someone who’s been given nonjudicial punishment or who’s been found guilty in a court-martial.

3. Confinement for Naughtiness

Cursing can get you sent to the clink for six months in the military, and up to two years if directed at a child. Having a threesome while married, regardless of consent, can get you put away for a year. “Straggling” while marching could get you three.

4. Hard labor without a full trial

A summary court-martial is not a full trial, but you can be sentenced to hard labor regardless. Minor offenses such as being late for duty, sleeping on watch, disobeying orders, providing false information, and damaging government property could earn you this punishment.

Although the consequences of these actions are arguably much more serious in the military, this kind of punishment wouldn’t fly in the civilian world.

5. Searched without a warrant

All of your activities on base are subject to scrutiny — and all of your possessions are subject to warrantless search. From a dormitory inspection to a car or house search, military members don’t have a reasonable right to privacy so long as they’re on government property.

6. Public Shaming

A captain’s mast is the Navy’s nonjudicial punishment discipline procedure. In the Marines, it’s referred to as “office hours,” and in the Army and Air Force it’s simply called “Article 15.”

The worst-case scenario in a captain’s mast is that you’re publicly embarrassed and given punishment while your sins are read in front of your peers and superiors. Whether or not a captain’s mast is public or private is up to the commanding officer, regardless of your preference in the matter.

Retired Marine Lt. Col. James Weirick, a former JAG officer, said in an interview with Task & Purpose that a slightly similar equivalent in the civilian world is a National Football League’s public announcement of a player’s iniquities.

7. Forced to eat MRE's three times a day

If you’re in military lockup, you’re entitled to three meals a day, but they can be MREs, or a “similar substitute,” according to Army Regulation 27-10. The highly caloric meals are only meant to be eaten for a maximum of 21 days — so pray your sentence isn’t longer than that.

8. Forced acceptance of nonjudicial punishment

If your address starts with USS and you find yourself in trouble with your command — whether justified or unjustified — you cannot refuse nonjudicial punishment. Called the “vessel exception,” the Navy can deny the right to refuse NJP to any member attached to a ship.