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>PFCs are always disciplined more harshly than errant generals. Let them serve as examples of the standards they refused to set and maintain.
>PFCs are always disciplined more harshly than errant generals. Let them serve as examples of the standards they refused to set and maintain.
LET'S SEE IF MATTIS SETS THE SAME STANDARDS FOR HIMSELF?
Bring back Court Martials!
UCMJ crackdown: Why Mattis thinks commanders have gone soft on misconduct
The number of courts-martial and other severe punishments meted out to misbehaving troops across the military has steadily declined in recent years, raising concerns at the Pentagon’s highest levels that some commanders have gone soft on traditional military discipline.'''
The total of general, special and summary court-martial cases handled by the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines has plummeted by nearly 70 percent during the past decade — down from 6,377 in 2007 to 1,980 in 2017, according to a Military Times analysis.
Military Times found that less severe non-judicial punishment cases also tumbled — down nearly 40 percent over the same span.
The dive in Uniform Code of Military Justice enforcement far outpaced the drawdown in overall active-duty troops. Combined end strength of the four services dropped by 14 percent since 2007 to roughly 1.3 million in 2017.
Many military experts believe a primary cause for the falling UCMJ numbers stems from commanders’ decisions to opt against courts-martial proceedings or NJPs and instead lean on administrative discipline, which often results in the accused service member getting kicked out of the military.
Administrative discipline tends to be bureaucratically easier and less time-consuming than traditional UCMJ measures to punish misconduct.
That may explain the highly unusual Aug. 13 memo that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis fired off, when he voiced concerns that today’s military commanders may be jeopardizing the force’s long-term good order and discipline.
“Leaders must be willing to choose the harder right over the easier wrong,” Mattis wrote in the memo, which was obtained by Military Times.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/09/10/ucmj-crackdown-why-mattis-thinks-commanders-have-gone-soft-on-misconduct/