The Uniform Code of Military Justice is Neither Uniform, or Justice, Part II

By Rich Kozlovich

Let me start off stating I served, I hated it, I despised the officers, and I still do.  I found them arrogant, lazy, pampered, and catered to bullies who could get away with conduct that would have gotten them smacked in the mouth in civilian life.  And it's clear it's worse now more than ever, since now the officer corp is filled with Woke traitors.

When serving as an enlisted man in the military it becomes abundantly clear the system is rigged against you.  And truth be told, given that so many military people are in their late teens or early twenties, there's a degree of understandably for that.  They rig the system to keep all the wild impulses of all those testosterone filled young men under control.  But it's not uniform, nor is it justice.  Mostly, it's big egos, bad attitudes, and politics.   And that permeates military justice at all levels.  Some people are special, and some aren't, including some officers.

In 2021 I published this piece, Uniform Code of Military Justice is Neither Uniform Nor Justice, saying: 

Currently the US Navy Secretary under Lloyd Austin is threatening to make the Navy SEALs, arguably the finest special operation people in the world, to make them pay back the cost of their training if they don't get the vaccination.  And the reason why?  "In order to maximize readiness, it is the policy goal of the U.S. Navy to achieve a fully vaccinated force against the persistent and lethal threat of COVID-19." 

Yet we see how:

"A general kicks off a plane between 50 and 100 people, some of whom were most likely killed, to bring back a war trophy, all of which was against regulations, and nothing is done.   All par for the course with this administration, and the upper ranks of the military.  An enlisted man would be been thrown in prison."

Most of the people are a bit surprised and dubious when I tell them the movie "A Few Good Men" is in my opinion the perfect example of military justice.  In the movie justice prevailed, but the movie made it clear, that was not the military's intention.   The system was rigged, and it wasn't supposed to end that way.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl?   They traded five Taliban commanders for Bergdahl.  They traded five terrorist leaders who would most certainly go on to commit more acts of terror for a deserter who was captured by the Taliban.  His punishment?   

Bergdahl was tried by general court-martial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, and on October 16, 2017, he entered a guilty plea before a military judge at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. On November 3, 2017, he was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank to private and fined $1,000 per month from his pay for ten months, with no prison time.

In 2o23 Daniel Greenfield discussed Travis King saying:

The Travis King case is already starting to resemble the Bowe Bergdahl case. King appears to have tried to defect to North Korea. The Norks decided that they didn’t want him, but the Biden administration sure does.  And he’s not getting the treatment allotted to a defector, but to some kind of war hero.............This is how we handle defections now? Soldiers who refused to get vaccinated were booted out unceremoniously, but defecting to some of our worst enemies merits a “talented and experienced team” guiding him through a “reintegration process” and a “family reunion”?

Today Rachel Alexander published this article, Wrongly Convicted, Highly Decorated Conservative Marine Colonel Publishes Book After Exoneration, saying:

Dan Wilson, who rose through the ranks in the Marines from Private to Colonel in his final 10 years there, has published Undaunted Gladiator, a book about his experience being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime he never committed. He fought the conviction while in prison and won, was exonerated and released after three years of incarceration. It is a tragic example of how woke policies, corrupt lawyers and generals are destroying our military from within.

 She goes on to describe how outrageously this man was treated, ending up in prison for three years based on trials where no evidence of any crime existed, and no evidence of his innocence was permitted, and was found guilty by a rigged jury of "hand picked generals".

It gets far more interesting as Rachel notes:

I wrote an article about his unjust imprisonment, and New York attorneys for the woman who had accused him of molesting her daughter overnighted me as well as my then-employer a menacing letter demanding I take the article down within 24 hours or they threatened legal action against me. Since I’d spoken extensively with Wilson’s family and knew he was innocent, I held firm.

She went on to say:

Wilson’s appeal was conducted while he was in prison. Wilson’s stepdaughter paid for an appellate attorney to represent him to the appellate court, because he was too deep in debt from legal expenses to hire one. ..........Fortunately, the site MilitaryCorruption.com had his back the entire way. They said about his case, 

“The Marine Corps should be deeply ashamed for railroading an innocent man into prison! We have been observing examples of military injustice for over 50 years, but nothing, and we mean nothing quite compares to the abomination of justice that Colonel Daniel H. Wilson suffered at the hands of the United States Marine Corps…A great man who was stabbed in the back by his own people.” 

We're they ashamed?  No!  In spite of the fact the Marines were "forced to restore all of his pay and benefits", and in spite of the fact those years in prison were never paid for, the corruption didn't end:

[they] invoked administrative punishment in revenge for losing this landmark case by having Wilson put on the retirement roster to be paid as a Lieutenant Colonel, and smearing his 39 years of honorable service by designating it as “Other Than Honorable.” Only the current Secretary of the Navy or President can restore justice to Wilson and his family."

That's the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and that's always been the case in the military. 

Unfortunately, it seems like that's what were seeing at all levels of justice in America, and we're now calling it "lawfare".  The civilian equivalent of the UCMJ, neither uniform, or justice, and it's destroying the rule of law and the nation.