Non- Judicial Punishment for Minor Offenses

! Non- Judicial Punishment for Minor Offenses by COLONW NAN E. WMAN AKEuJthefoxeJ,thelittle foxes that spoil the vine!&" onudkd th monarch who chose wisdom-"an understanding ricbesorbonocs. Evayleaderofan ivmedforces'rrmllnvlnl 's temped to be a little blind to the faults of m e n d whom h has direa con-Ms daily-huh axnmody called " m i n o r ~ i s o g e d t o h e e d thatadmonition. Faeachsuchann- m a r d a , ~ J h o r t c o m m .gSare'the link foaa that spoil tbe vines": discipline d milimy e 6 c i e q disap pear, a d hk oiun fahuc is not far d, Wben mi+krrl+ W M seem relatively unimportant at the moment are habitually not p u d d . For taking tbosc little foxes the Rcsidcnt has dimxed free hut intelligent employment of Artick 15 in the Unifann code Ot Milimy Justice, entifkd Won-judicial punish-haut to ruk this peoplc"-rather than ment." Each cowmder, m doing Y), is cxpcfcd to Comply with the rrgulatiorbtbatarefoundmchap tcr XXVI of the 1951 Manual for cour&Mnrtial. The ated law, thus implemented, replaces "Company pmirbmcnt" fomwrlp used by the Army and the Air Farce, as well as

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"Reduction to the next infaia grade," a pcnalry said to work well in th Navy, is now available for plnishingenlincdmmintbeorbet armed forces. It bok remarkably like a senant the h y dirhargsd without a MclwactcrD many decades ago, because of a vmy general ob serration that 111 exp&!mA sddia who has laa his strips is usually a vriw liability. Liale can be aid for this pupishmmt as a maak a d discipline builder which cannot also be said with rrspecr to paying tbe installmen& al an ~ g e m e n t ring aftcr the girl has mapied a rival. P v p h 13lb (ZX(c>, (3) (c) 'MCM '51, with the aid of undis-closeddepartmentalregula~pmb indicates (condacndy with Article 150 ( 2 ) (D) UCMJ, I hape) which judicial pmkhment power m a p- ticulvcax. NevaQlplq.itwithaut ably because too sub-to c 0 m m a u d i n g ~ c a n C a n u r e ~ - acumnt rerriewof tkdirrcriverd yarrownamcdfarCcaDpcaning Bowamanbathcredmayberrircd 00th gndc thn held by theculprit you plan to -llus"; and if you am in the Army. you must have a place in its hiavchp above that of Gp & when tbe culplt is an Ism. Be cautious: chough the voice is Jacob's the hands am hose of b. You are neither old nor have your epe grown dim-sim? you am d 011 active duty but can om? sap as much fa th C a n p which v d this penalty (tantamount to a singing forfdturr of pay) lfta having Kc-peatsdly-even when eLuctipg the UCAM J-rejected unqualifiedly an open andabarn-baprd forfeitureaftbe pap of enliacd pRsms? - chrhanmb-unlnrown tothe Army athe Air Forccasa summa+ im+ pmishment fa "minor o&lrres" is now authaizcd intwofornrsfathafpnpofcindef-acnoc to the Navy, when the culprit is an edisced luan *?ttrbed m a embntLed in a vessel" but is neither KdIKRpaqdEcer. a It may be ordaebprrsurmblp with hard labor but h31 rations-famto exceed seven amjecutive days a "on kcadandwateraE"'bed ra-ti~"-which (in pntice) must man e&ctivC-fa not to QDEecd three an-secutivedays. Afracciandaday attbebcgmnmgorenddaperiod must be counted a wbole day and ea& day within a spe!ci6cd punishment rum ends at 2400 bcm, UII- k s s o c h r p r i s e ~ o r d m d . s a m c m

086Casofthe Army and the Air Faa, en route OWISQS by a poaacd zigzag ccurse withtwiccasmanyenlisacdmea aboard as couM either be deandv a ~ - annmodated or ~p *, lxavc'fer-Vend? (albeit -tly> expmJed &sires f a a much lprga bng than can be found in any traaspa~ But when again safely asbare thep have easilv been rrconvinced that neither of &st? fams of cCm6nelnmt will rcallvbenecdedfa'~o&nscs" &tbelattcrwhich~have b n g - l p p r o p r t p t e o n t y ~ hardendrcCllcin?na Undoubtedly, mort of you have hr- c o U n t C I C d ~ W b O * withmaevigaandshvpnasthan . . solitary confinaacnt in orda to be

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RemoceastlleAnrncan Revolution may appear, it is closer in same than the Cia War to w v of Douglas sou-Frrcmur's biography of George Washington. covering &e five yeus and eight months from the French alliance to the postwar months d 1783. washinpa in sbort, had to get Tho - with foreign *-even 1s

1945. And anv txmma&r wbo has m l918 and Liscnbower in madctbekrtofthusiawi0nLPows thot colleagues of alien nations may have lide in anamon save a.cWng ydre. Not many rrdcrJ of Dr. Frec man's minutely documented study could continue to view washing-m's war as a simple struggle because it was wagsd by bale armies with weapons now gatberhg dust in the attic of pro~rrsk rt is an educational saps the biographer in his intmduccion, -to ?sJume that the rmallrakandan tedtacticsof worthy of examination by students. Ra.olutionarp r ar make it Unprofessional and amateur. All the pcrvasities of human M~UE that bcdevilacammanderanduweex-amples of stubborn pettiwss ahmat unique, are to be observed in Washington's campaigns . . . Much of the here is rich, also. in iHusmti0n of what happens to supply a d to pub lic 6naM.e When war wearinesopc-takesapeople. Stillmoreistobe learned about the maintenance of amity and coapaatjon betumq wartime anies" military history of the pears reviewed taa ashin~onfromtheaffof46 -en?d b.? oeorfytohis52dbirtbdap. Hebad while retaining a notewody ance.Onoaeoccadoahemdt60 miks in a day, and during a postwar teip to tk W a the 51-)rarold twist afnkd 750 miks on borPcbocL innipaccn &F Even the durable Washington might havebeendisma+ bowc9er. reached the peak of his i n t e w degreeofphpsic?lvigorandendur- . .

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