Posted on 07/15/2006 8:40:47 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Eh, not a prob.
I always figure that the reason for the enemedia's slow news days are due to the fact that THE GOOD GUYS ARE WINNING, and they're reluctant to report it.
Second Lieutenant sounds fine to me.
Airman Basic sounds better.
Sounds suspiciously French.
SACRE BLEU!!!!!!!
I think it's being reported now because he pled guilty yesterday.
Exactly. I would have thought an 0-5 would have had slightly more maturity. Very disappointing.
It doesn't matter if he did it in uniform or not.
Yep, how amazingly stupid does this guy have to be to build up his record, rank, and reputation over an excellent 20 year career and then give it all back for a felony conviction because he was out defacing cars in an airport parking lot? (And a normal person would expect EVERYTHING at an airport to be monitored, even the parking lot.) It wasn't a drunken one-time thing, he did this over 7 months. Unbelievable.
"Yeah, MacArthur rotted in jail for dissing Truman ... NOT !"
MacArthur had a serious policy disagreement with his boss. He did not act like some nine-year-old kid or a feminazi pulling some petty stunt.
You do have a point. OTOH, MacArthur was a much more prominent military hero than some obscure Lt.Col that no one except his mother ever heard of.
Give him "The big Chicken Dinner"
Allow me to translate for some of the civilians out there who have never worn the uniform: "The Big Chicken Dinner" is code for a Bad Conduct Discharge.
Defacing the bumper stickers wasn't felong, I don't believe.
I think his service record accords him a far amount of slack in the matter.
Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, a decorated officer who flew 500 combat hours in the Gulf War, Kosovo and Bosnia, pleaded guilty to felony mischief and must pay restitution to the owners of the damaged cars to clear his record.
The military takes a real dim view of its officers committing felonies. The military is deciding right now what rank to knock him down to for retirement purposes.
Good One. I don't advocate asassination but in this case....
Um...OK
What a disgrace.
He didn't just deface stickers. He blacked them out and then wrote his own message in letters 18" high. This latest article cleans it up to make it sound like a minor prank. One vehicle alone had $2,500 in damage.
Don't ask, don't tell?
Sounds suspiciously French.
Yes, I believe it's French for Fecal
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