So now being caught drinking on duty is not your fault?

[AccountingDrone]

As long as he won't have to do any forensic plumbing...

we could all chip in and get him a case of real cheap brandy ....

[chainedbarista]

ethan should be grateful that all he lost was a paygrade; if he were at a sensitive site, i'm betting he would have lost his ass as well.

this is what the military gets for relaxing recruiting standards.

[Dytchdoctir]

ethan should be grateful that all he lost was a paygrade; if he were at a sensitive site, i'm betting he would have lost his ass as well.

this is what the military gets for relaxing recruiting standards.

Ahem.

Sleeping or drinking on guard duty, during wartime, is punishable by death.

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/.../mcm/bl113.htm

[draco664]

Don't forget 2 weeks of road repair in there somewhere!

Reminds me of a sig I saw somewhere.

"There are four seasons in Canada. Winter, Deep Winter, Still Winter and Construction."

[Hobbs]

Hmm, seems ol' Ethan is lucky with just a reduction in pay and losing a stripe...

ART. 113. MISBEHAVIOR OF A SENTINEL OR LOOKOUT
Any sentinel or look-out who is found drunk or sleeping upon his post, or leaves it before he is regularly relieved, shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, by if the offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment other than death as court-martial may direct.

[Ironclad Alibi]

One of the suitable punishments suggested was visited upon Major Thorn in the movie Sgt. Bilko.

[protege]

Don't forget 2 weeks of road repair in there somewhere!

Except in Pennsylvania. Around here, road "repair" is a year-round sport

Seriously though, this thread reminds me of what my coworker said when she received her second DUI and spent a night in jail-- "This is *so* unfair. It's not like I killed anyone!" Yeah, you're pissed because you got caught and had to suffer the consequences

[Sapphire Silk]

Except in Pennsylvania. Around here, road "repair" is a year-round sport

Seriously though, this thread reminds me of what my coworker said when she received her second DUI and spent a night in jail-- "This is *so* unfair. It's not like I killed anyone!" Yeah, you're pissed because you got caught and had to suffer the consequences

She didn't kill anyone THIS time.

I hate drunk drivers. Even when they do hurt someone, they are almost always oblivious and uncaring, blaming everyone but themselves.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

How about to watch over a Alaskan weather tower for four months straight?

Like what happened to John Laroquette's chracter in "Stripes?"

That would be cool . . . in more ways than one.

[AccountingDrone]

She didn't kill anyone THIS time.

I hate drunk drivers. Even when they do hurt someone, they are almost always oblivious and uncaring, blaming everyone but themselves.

I used to keep an alarm clock and set of work clothes in my car for nights I went out drinking. I have slept in my fair share of parking lots