If I had the address of my last battalion commander, I'd send him a big FU letter for an incident over 34 years ago.
He was the HQs Battalion Cdr at Fort Bliss, I was one of his battery commanders. His leadership style would be a great fit under President Trump, I'm sure he'd wear a MAGA hat instead of the regulation headgear.
He didn't appreciate that I gave a battery level Article 15 to one of my soldiers who got drunk and broke a barracks window over a weekend, and I administered it on Monday afternoon. Before COB I was called on the carpet, because he wanted to do a field level Article 15, and ruin the kid's prospects for GI bill benefits when his enlistment ended in a couple of months.
I'd been in command about a year, and had never had problems with the young soldier. To think that he would receive about the same punishment as Bergdahl under that a$$hat reinforces the wisdom of my actions.
