Army Major Dismissed for Affair with Wife of Deployed Special Forces NCO
This guy is the definition of a Jody:
Scott, an Apache helicopter pilot, met the woman — the wife of a deployed sergeant first class assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group — in May 2015 at a spin class she was teaching at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The two soon began dating, according to court documents.
Unaware for some weeks that she was married, Scott introduced the woman as his girlfriend to co-workers. By October, the command had learned the woman was married and Scott’s supervisor, a colonel, ordered an end to the romance. Scott did not comply.
After the sergeant’s wife ended the relationship in January, Scott began harassing her by text message, alternately threatening her, demanding sex and professing his love, court documents say.
In one message, Scott sent the woman a link to a news story about a Special Forces soldier who had been killed in Afghanistan, and asked if her husband was dead.
When she responded that his unit was surrounded and that members of the unit had been killed, Scott “suggested that she might get lucky if (her husband) were to be killed in action,” according to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals case summary. He also told her, “No man wants a whore for a wife.”
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That so-called “officer” ought to have been given a dishonorable discharge and hanged. Doesn’t matter what his prior service was. At the point of decision, he proved himself incapable of good judgement, incapable of obeying orders, incapable of defending those under his care.
And he was improperly charged. “Conduct Unbecoming” was a lazy move by the Prosecutors. There was a lot more to this than mere adultery.
Look up “10 U.S. Code § 899. Art. 99. Misbehavior before the enemy “. Major Scott “[did] not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies when engaged in battle”. Scott deserved a rope (but not a new one) because the husband of that woman was deployed.
If our troops need to worry about Major Jody, they’re not going to deploy. Look up “18 U.S. Code § 2388. Activities affecting armed forces during war” for the civilian version. That calls for a sentence of up to 20 years in a Federal Penitentiary.
I’d like to see the prosecutors step up to the plate on this one… We don’t need “fearless warriors” willing to betray Americans…
So why not advocate for both to serve 20 years in a federal pen. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Takes two to tango, he didn’t start this out of the blue, she was a willing party.
Flyingsword, I think Obama got rid of the adultery thing, plus she tried to break up with Major Soup-Sandwich.
I hold officers to a higher standard than camp followers. Is that wrong?
Yeah, she is definitely to blame in the beginning; but the major should have dropped her like a squirming turd when he found out she was married, doubly so because her husband was enlisted. And triply so because he was ordered to walk away.
Is she in the military? Sounds like she is a civilian. A skank and a horrible person obviously, but a civilian.
Why can’t we hold everyone to a higher standard?
“Winner, winner, chicken dinner”