Osan Town Patrol Lieutenant Gets 2 Years For Corruption
I was reading the Stars and Stripes today and saw that the former Osan town patrol officer, 1LT Jason Davis was sentenced to 2 years in prison for his actions. The Stars and Stripes will have the article on their site tomorrow. Here is what 1LT Davis had to say in the article:
“I set a bad example for a lot of people. I’m here because I screwed up and I’m an idiot… My actions set back town patrol… Those guys deserved the recognition and they didn’t deserve the recognition that I bought them… I got no excuse.”
Everything that I have heard about 1LT Davis is that he is in fact an idiot and deserves what he got. However, I can’t help but think that I have seen soldiers get more time in military prison for charges not nearly as serious 1LT Davis’. I wasn’t at the trial and maybe the defense lawyers did a good job showing what a great guy 1LT Davis is to get so little jail time. I don’t know, however I was tipped off to this article by Mark who was commenting over at Nomads site.
The site Military Corruption.com brings up some good points worth sharing. First of all that the court martial was executed during Chusok to avoid Korean press coverage was slick. Secondly, the fact that the Korean girl that Davis had a romantic relationship with that exposed his activities to begin with didn’t testify I also found interesting. It seems like she would have been the key witness in this whole court martial. Thirdly, the site believes the fix may have been in for this trial to keep Davis quiet about how far up the chain the corruption went. After seeing this light sentence, who knows, you can be the judge on that one.
[…] Is it just me or do MPs make the stupidest criminals? In my time in the Army I have seen MPs get busted for stupid incidents. I’m not saying that MPs commit more incidents than anyone else, but it sure seems like when they do get in trouble they commit the stupidest incidents. You would think MPs would be more clever in covering their tracks. Even the Air Force has MPs that just leave me wondering what the heck were they thinking? […]
I was there and worked under the Lt he was deserving of a lot harsher sentence!!
I think everyone is pretty much in agreement that the LT Davis trial was very carefully handled in order to not expose even higher level corruption and make the thing into an even more larger and embarrassing scandal.
This is probably what effected the sentence he was given. He definitely was deserving a longer sentence. I have seen soldiers commit credit card fraud get sentences as long as Davis.
How about this:
He still got paid while he was in… and he refused an early release so he could save more money.
The Chickenhead Intelligence Agency (CIA) nevers ceases to amaze me.