Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Would take some of the teeth out of good order and discipline.
The mil would react by processing more folks for OTH and DD. And out of necessity imposing more stringent punishment... brig time instead of a months pay, etc.
For that they would need to win a court martial and have the judge actually give that as a punishment. Not impossible I suppose, but the track record on that isn’t good so far.
Now multiply that by 60,000, 200,000 if you count those only partially immunized. now multiply that by the 25 man-days (well, person-days anyway) per court martial, most of them officer-days, and it becomes clear why it is best to just not give stupid orders.
Not to mention there isn’t enough brig space to hold that many.
Nor will examples like this be helpful in defending this order:
