Desenrollment Information

OP my recommendation is you need to make no excuses and own this. Every one of the services has Honor/Integrity as a Value/Core Value and there are no shades of that. So if it is an act of omission then you say I accept that I erred and in so doing passed off work not my own as my own and I apologize. If it is an act of commission then you will be getting off easy if they let you continue service. At the end of the day we count that the person on the other end of the radio when we're adjusting fire or calling medevac is a person of integrity and if that isn't the case most of us will be happy to allow them to pursue another line of work.

BTW stop talking about your past good service. This is about the act itself and the other three years don't count if you violate your integrity 4-6 months out from commissioning.
 
unkown1961 said:
Being disenrolled for a 2 unsourced sentences? I teach at a university and I don't know anyone who would even flunk you for that small amount or report you to the university's database. They'd ding your grade of course. That being said, I don't know why you didn't attribute the sentences to the blog and its link - just because you couldn't find the author, you didn't think to source the blog's title? This deserves a grade decrease but not a disenrollment.
Also, how did your detachment find out?
But, to a broader discussion, to be disenrolled for 2 sentences is rather draconian. Let the punishment fit the level of crime: do some extra push-ups or something, but to disenroll! I'm against zero tolerance or knee-jerk type extreme penalties. For one, it's inconsistent with what we see in active duty - people can certainly name top officers who have not been kicked out for fraternization, DUI, etc. But second, the military stands to lose good people. College kids can make a mistake and they may be losing a solid leader. Further, these type of punishments loses sight of empathy and context that can be a lesson to the offender (oh, and the people doing the punishing probably have done something similar at some point in their life). Should a 20 year old be kicked out for having one beer? Should a young LT have a poor eval for being late because his wife became suddenly ill as he was leaving the house?
For the record, I've had a 100% plagiarized paper who received and F and was reported to our school's database, I've had papers with enough plagiarizing that they had their grade knocked down, and I've had papers with 1 to 2 unattributed sentences where they lost a few points based on an overall fantastic paper.
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Of course this comment is insane as it is logical, full of common sense and something most people could agree with. Therefore, I say it should be banned from this site:)
Seriously though, you have to put things into perspective. Everything unknown1961 said make a lot of sense (this commment is for those who cant tell I was being sarcastic)
 
After the decision of the ROTC, it is almost impossible to challenge their decision, however, you can request the help of a lawyer who will be able to consider this situation in more detail.
 
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