[Not A Snowbird]

I once sat on a court-martial for a sergeant from Eighth & I. Throughout the trial it became painfully obvious that the wrong person was on trial. The "star" witness, some slimeball private, should have been the one being run up on charges.

We acquitted the sergeant in about fifteen minutes. (Fourteen of those minutes were spent on procedural issues.) Oh, how we wished we could have grabbed that private by his pencil neck and given him what for!

[Wristpin]

"We acquitted the sergeant in about fifteen minutes. (Fourteen of those minutes were spent on procedural issues.) Oh, how we wished we could have grabbed that private by his pencil neck and given him what for!


I thought the same thing when I read that there were no witnesses to the shooting. The LT is a former enlisted Marine and that can be a neverending pain in the axx for an underperforming NCO. I wonder if there was friction from the LT being in this SGT's skivvies all the time?