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...what punishment she had hoped for: I was hoping to be given an Article 15 [an administrative disciplinary action that ranges from reprimands to reductions in rank]. Then I could salute smartly, get Marc Zigo the hell out of my life and move on. I wouldn't have to live under his threats anymore...
...among the guests was Senior Airman Colin Thompson, whom Flinn had met a few months before. During the party, the report alleges, Flinn and Thompson had sex on the lawn of her residence; then Thompson spent the night. According to the report, Thompson claimed that Flinn, his superior in rank, told him that she knew what they did was wrong but that no one would ever find out about it. It was this encounter that gave rise to the fraternization charge against...
...found herself a lawyer. Lieut. General Phillip J. Ford, commander of the Eighth Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, approved a recommendation that she be court-martialed. Ford could have slapped her with a "nonjudicial," or administrative, punishment, such as a reprimand or reduction in rank, which is what senior Air Force officials in the Pentagon now wish he had done. Instead, on Feb. 25, Flinn was ordered to stand trial...
...effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization--the extracurricular association of officers with enlisted personnel--was involved. Fraternization was outlawed even when it referred primarily to poker games between lieutenants and grunts. Today commanders face nightmare scenarios of officers using rank to extort sex, of favoritism and jealousy eating away at the chain of command and hard-won troop morale, of subordinates wondering if their officer sent them on a particularly dangerous mission to avoid assigning it to a lover. Very few courts-martial involve adultery alone: frequently it is coupled with fraternization...
Fraternization rules vary from service to service. An Army pamphlet states that "dating between soldiers of different rank is not harmful, and usually not improper." On the Navy's first coed carrier to include servicewomen, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, couples who confessed their love to the captain quietly received new assignments, without repercussion. The Air Force takes a different attitude. Although a manual allows that a marriage between an officer and enlisted person "is not, by itself evidence of misconduct," it reserves the right to take punitive action "based on prior fraternization...