Good Order & Discipline

The Department of the Navy has settled upon a regulatory change to address the Marines United photo-sharing scandal.
The statute details three conditions that will be considered a violation of Navy regulations, including if images are broadcast or transmitted: “with the intent to realize personal gain; with the intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce the depicted person; or with reckless disregard as to whether the depicted person would be humiliated, harmed, intimidated, threatened, or coerced,” the regs read...

In this case, detailing expectations of Department of the Navy personnel amounts to a lawful order, which can be enforced with the full weight of the justice system, from non-judicial punishment to general court martial. Sailors and Marines who run afoul of the new regs could be charged with an Article 92, failure to obey a lawful order, the Navy's chief spokesperson confirmed in a statement.
As expected, 100% of the focus is on the unauthorized sharing of the photos. There will not be any attempt to rein in the fraternizing of male and female Marines, nor their sharing of nude photos of each other so long as it is consensual. Neither will there be any inquiry into whether such an environment is really compatible with good order and discipline.

It's a half-step, but my guess is that there is no one in the leadership who feels empowered to question the place of Free Love in the military at this particular moment in American history. As with other 1960s counterculture values, Free Love is now ascendant for good and for ill.

Even in the Marine Corps.

2 comments:

Eric Blair said...

Hey now, Sacred Band and all that. There are precedents. (Of a sort).

Ymar Sakar said...

The power of the Leftist alliance is not something people should have underestimated. Nor was Hussein just being an idiot and allowing the US military to do whatever it wanted.

The draft was never going to save US virtues from decadence, decay, and vice.

The Left are experts at hijacking organizations from the ground up. Humans were arrogant to believe some military science and education made them immune to it. Lucifer cares not for what your military rank and accolades are, for all they need to do is corrupt and possess the upper echelon civilian leaders. After that, everything else falls into place as with feminism and civil rights movement. The slave lords of the Confederacy themselves knew how to control black slaves and poor scott/irish white clans.