[lawrencefan]

**** I do and I agree with them. Good lord, what I want to know is how a police officer in America can take his little stick thing he carries on him and hit a suspect that is fighting back in the stomach mulitiple times and it's perfectly OK, but when a Navy SEAL punches a terrorist connected with the Blackwater Fallujah attack in the stomach they get Article 15'd? Come on man, you have to protect your own. Especially on something that is a non-issue like this.

First of all, for those who don't know, what the article means by "non-judicial punishment" is called an Article 15 in the military. There are three types, a Summary grade, Company Grade, and Field Grade, the least being the less serious to the most serious. I'm guessing these guys went before there commander with Field Grade Article 15's, and if you accept it you pretty much admitted you're guilt and you take you're punishment, Loss of pay or rank or extra-duty, and it's over with. We would have never heard about this if that would have been the case. But if they did that then it would have been on there record for I think like 5 more years and apparantly they didn't want that, so they opted to go before a court-martial.

Not to mention being dishonorably discharged. What kind of officer would bring charges against his men under these circumstances? He is probably watching his a&& in this politically correct world we live in. Just like the officers supervising the shooter at Ft Hood.