sf wrote:

>>> Correct. I had to deal with lazy 'employees' at times myself and it's
>>> frustrating as hell. Navy retired Senior Chief and some sailors were
>>> just there to get a paycheck. Getting them to do anything like
>>> cleaning the ship was so painful it would have been easier to do it
>>> myself, but that doesnt work in the long run.
>>
>> But God forbid you write a bad eval about them; it won't make it up the
>> "touchy-feely" chain. Even if they're criminals facing a BCD or DD.
>>
> If they are only "facing" BCD or DD, then they haven't been convicted.
> Surely you know they're innocent until proven guilty in a court of
> law.

If they are facing BCD or DD, then they've already been CONVICTED. Those are
sentences, not verdicts.

Also, "court of law" has a somewhat different meaning when you're talking
about the military justice system. The rights of military members differ
significantly from the rights of normal citizens. An easy example is the
obligation to go to work: If I just stopped coming to work, I could expect
to be fired. Nobody would send the police to drag me back to my workplace,
but that's exactly what can happen to an absentee in the military. If a
military member skipped out on his or her duties, he or she could expect to
be *jailed* -- and if convicted of desertion in wartime, could possibly even
be executed.

Bob