Close, but no cigar. The Federal Penitentiary is off post, actually just outside Fort Leavenworth. The U.S. Army Disciplinary Barracks is on post. The USDB is where a soldier might spend time if so convicted and sentenced, as it is the only maximum security prison within the Department of Defense. I seriously doubt if the good LTC will ever see the inside of the USDB.
It must be something about U.S. Army AMEDD, perhaps they are still reeling from the Major Hasan fiasco.
Or maybe, a general court is precisely what LTC Lakin was looking for. A special court could be hidden within the bureaucracy, but it is tough to hide a general court.
That’s the federal pen. Military goes to the Disciplinary Barracks. But I don’t think that LCOL Lakin will do time even if convicted. He’ll be separated and lose all pension and benefits.
This was Obama’s birthplace ... well his mother’s.
I’m reminded of the Spec. 4 (Michael Neu (sic?)) back in the Clinton days who wouldn’t wear the U.N. beret and armband on a deployment, because he thought that he would be serving under a foreign general in a U.N. command. He said he signed up to serve in the U.S. Army and expected that everyone in his CoC would be U.S. Army. I admire this doctor’s courage of his convictions.