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Well judging by the fact that you were court martialed I would assume your military career was cut a bit short and that you didnt exactly excell while you were on active duty. If you dont think this Marine's CO is going to feel reprocussions because of this you truely have no idea what you are talking about. I'm am not saying there will be charges brought however he or she is now at the highest rank they will attain and at a minimum a letter of reprimand will be placed in his or her file. or in other words their career is over.
Wrong again on every count. I did excel , and I'll happily post my last eval prior to the court-martial to prove it. My court martial came about because I was charged with something I did not do, and I demanded a court-martial because I had already been treated unjustly in Non-judicial punishment by my CO for other matters, and was not going to allow him to shaft me twice (at least not by the same methods). Nor was my military career cut short in any way.
Of the many CO's I had, I can remember two that presided over very embarassing scandals in his command. One was actually guilty of some very serious charges, and all he got in the way of punishment was a desk job at his current rank until he retired. The other had nothing to do with what went on under him, and suffered not one whit as a result. He was an excellent officer and leader and I remained in contact with him until his untimely death from cancer. He was promoted to flag rank after the scandal, he suffered not a damn thing because of it (as was just).
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Look fool I never said they could take his leave away just not grant him the leave. There is a distinct difference. Just because he has leave on the books by no mean guarantees his ability to take that leave.
Ooooo name calling! You maintain that leave is a privilege. It is not. And as I pointed out more than once already, leave can be denied for various reasons at various times, but ultimately they have to give him his leave. And again, if the authorities thought him a flight risk they could have held him until trial, and his CO could have denied him leave. Neither chose to do so. And again LEAVE IS NOT A PRIVILEGE, IT IS A GUARANTEED CONDITION OF THE MILITARY CONTRACT.
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You are just wrong about this. Although there are any # of people in his chain of command who should have stopped this his CO is going to bear the brunt of the flak for letting that Cpl go on leave. His 1st Sgt, SNCOIC, Plt Sgt, or Plt Commander should never have let this happen. Do you really think the Marine Corps really wanted to set itself up for that kind of bad press? It's not like this wasnt in the news media already.
If the people you list above felt that he was a flight risk, they would have denied his leave. Wouldn't they? A leave request has to go through a lot of people before its granted doesn't it? If any of the people in this guys chain of command had recommended his leave be denied don't you think it would have been? Maybe. Maybe not. Only the last signature on the chit will matter, and that will be the CO's. And if he approved the guys leave, suspecting that the guy was a flight risk, then you can bet your *** he had a good reason to do so, whether it was just to avoid the bad publicity the guys lawyer might raise if his leave was denied, or whether it was as I suspect to give the guy enough rope to hang himself is largely irrelevant, he had his reasons, and they may very well have come from above.
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The military doesnt just let people go to see if he wouldnt return. That's about the most asinine thing I have ever heard. There was no need to establish a pattern of behavior. HE DESERTED DURING WARTIME FROM A COMBAT ZONE!!!!!! It's not like he just showed up late a couple of times, or they needed a paper trail to show that his offense wasnt just a singular act that would not rise to a General Courts martial.
You really are the most naive 15 year veteran I've ever met. Are you under the impression that his entire chain of command was completely unaware of the possibility of this man not coming back? If things are as you say they are, then everyone must have suspected that this guy was going to refuse to come back. So they are all either idiots, in which case our military is in big trouble, or they had some reason to allow him to both remain unconfined and go on leave. Hmmmmm.... granted it is the Marine Corps, and they are not exactly renowned for their intellectual acumen, but even they aren't that stupid. You might be, but I have to think that this guy's entire chain of command has to be just a touch brighter than that.
As of yet, the man has not been convicted of anything. Despite your histrionics he's neither a deserter nor a criminal until he has been convicted.
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Actually I lost the leave due to deployments and the op tempo my unit maintains.
So nobody in your entire outfit was able to take leave for over two years? Because in order to lose leave you have to accumulate at least 60 days worth first. At no time during this 2+ years did you have the opportunity to take leave? ********* If you didn't take it, its your own damned fault.