Sergeant Glass was not disloyal; he did not commit malingering; he did not engage in adultery; but he did get too enthusiastic about training recruits. He crossed the line, in the best judgment of his fellow Marines. Man up, Glass: take your punishment like a Marine, and you may be able to come back.
TC
Not the enlisted Marines that shook his hand after the verdict.
Man up, Glass: take your punishment like a Marine, and you may be able to come back.
Since when may he 'be able to come back'?
six months in the brig and gave him a bad-conduct discharge for abusing 23 recruits.
He's done, and his prospects for a civilian job are severely limited with a 'big chicken dinner' discharge.
Not with the Big Chicken Dinner he's not.