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No that's not true- what he can kiss goodbye is the futre that he expected to have. The guy made some stupid mistakes and is going to pay the price for that. He is not dead, nor is he in jail. If his family were good people before - they are now, and if he is a good guy who got caught up in something that caused him to make a bad error- well now he will have to deal with that.I am a big Navy fan, but this is unacceptable. Sounds to me, he wasn't who we thought he was. This is a real black eye for USNA. He can kiss his future good-bye.
RGK
Folks on this forum are often confused in my opinion. They want to see things as absolute and black and white- and yet nothing short of death is that way. This isn't a blackeye for Navy- the system booted someone who violated the code (and for good or bad- lots of folks at Navy not just football players had opportunities to "remediate" honor offenses with multiple chances). This is a blackeye for this young man, but it's not a black eye for life- it's a failure that he will have to deal with and learn from. I dare say that most of us have made some monumentally stupid and short sighted decisions in our twenties that we would take back if we could, but we also are generally not judged at 50 by what we were at 20.
Now how the heck he gets out from under his debt- that' going to be a big issue for a long time unless they let work it off with enlisted time.