Case Study: Karma

<sarcasm>Like other commands and brush it under the rug.... </sarcasm>

SGT Smalls has come to terms with the issue. While he is "done", SGT Smalls may still come into contact with these cats at a later date. There is no guarantee he will keep his cool.

I think Faith has an obligation to investigate this matter to protect everyone involved (ie transfer or discharge the guilty and keep them away from Smalls... who I would want to protect the most in this situation). I also believe Faith has an obligation to find out who the cameraman is. That will send a message to others to not involve themselves in helping with the infidelity of a soldier or their spouse, even if they aren't an active participant in the sexual conduct. I also believe Faith needs to find out if there was in fact an officer involved.

Pull out the torches and pitch forks!

Edit: Damn! I type too slow. LOL
 
Read the riot act to the two dudes confirmed to be in the photo and scare the identity of the 3rd out of them.

Then waterboard everyone involved for good measure.
 
I have a feeling MAJ Ripley is more involved in this than we realize so far.
 
Happy to have the investigation behind him, Faith was now able to concentrate on the other major tasks on his list. Faith scanned his completed investigation and emailed it to MAJ Ripley, who approved it without comment. The two individuals who had cheated with SGT Smalls’ wife were transferred to Group headquarters, where they served out their extra duty on CQ and were then transferred down the street to Division. Good riddance.

First Sergeant Reynolds and the rest of the MID had conducted a very thorough change of command inventory with 1LT Delano, and the Detachment seemed to have warmed up to her very nicely. Faith knew that it was hard for a new commander, especially someone relatively unknown, to take over for a commander who was well-liked. This was especially true when the departing commander doesn’t leave the overall unit. Faith tried his best to start handing the reigns over to Delano piece by piece, subtly beginning the process of transferring the responsibility of command to her while ensuring the overall process went smoothly. CPT Castelli’s assumption of command for the HQD was likewise going smoothly, with no involvement from Faith whatsoever.

One thing that was not going so well, was CPT James’ assumption of command of the GSC. Faith hadn’t seen James around in a few days, and had assumed he was doing change of command inventories. But when the GSC supply sergeant called and asked Faith if he had seen James, Faith was able to piece together that no one in the Group had seen Al James in a couple of days.

“Hey sir,” said Staff Sergeant Clark, the GSC supply sergeant, “Have you seen CPT James?”

“Not since probably last Thursday, what’s up?” Faith replied.

“I’m doing his inventories, and I haven’t seen him around in a couple of days. We’re missing a classified laptop, and the last person to have signed for it is him. We’re also missing a couple of other things that were accounted for before MAJ Ripley left, but we can’t find now. I just wanted to see if you knew where he was, so we can get this sorted out.”

“Well, did you call him?” Faith asked.

“Well, sir, I was kind of hoping you’d do that. CPT James has been acting kind of strange lately, and I don’t want to risk pissing him off.”

Tell me about it, Faith thought.

“Yeah, that’s fine, I’ll give him a ring and find out what’s up.”

“Thanks, sir,” said SSG Clark as he hung up.



OK, so the situation is, Faith’s commander is in Iraq, and the guy who is supposed to take over for him (and who seems to be acting weirder and weirdOK, so the situation is, Faith’s commander is in Iraq, and the guy who is supposed to take over for him (and who seems to be acting weirder and weirder) hasn’t been seen in a couple of days. What do you do?
 
Marauder06 said:
OK, so the situation is, Faith’s commander is in Iraq, and the guy who is supposed to take over for him (and who seems to be acting weirder and weirdOK, so the situation is, Faith’s commander is in Iraq, and the guy who is supposed to take over for him (and who seems to be acting weirder and weirder) hasn’t been seen in a couple of days.What do you do?
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Weirder and weirder and weirder ok. :ROFLMAO:
As you know, all of these 3 letter abbreviations are hard for me to sort through but Id say if a classified laptop is missing and he is the guy who signed it out Faith HAS to find Al James and fairly quickly. Id call Gibbs, NCIS.
 
1LT = first lieutenant
CPT = captain
MAJ = major
SGT = sergeant
HQD = Headquarters Detachment
GSC = Group Support Company
MID = Military Intelligence Detachment
CQ = charge of quarters
 
Marauder06 said:
1LT = first lieutenant
CPT = captain
MAJ = major
SGT = sergeant
HQD = Headquarters Detachment
GSC = Group Support Company
MID = Military Intelligence Detachment
CQ = charge of quarters
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This should be a stickie somewhere....
The civilian chick thanks you! :thumbsup:
 
CDG said:
I have a feeling MAJ Ripley is more involved in this than we realize so far.
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I'm starting to think Capt Faith is more involved in this then we know. Like Kevin Costner's character in No Way Out.

:ninja:
 
Time to take a trip to the soon-to-be ex Mrs. Smalls' place... or maybe it is time to get CID involved? That is probably an over reaction, but with the recent investigation and a classified laptop missing... It might be worth it.

I would check CPT Jame's place, then her place. If both are dry holes, I would call CID and wash my hands of it. :D
 
Chopstick said:
Dont try to change the subject! Where is the laptop???
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What laptop?

policemedic said:
I wonder how much Big Military Wife porn is on the laptop :-"
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Hmm... I guess we'll have to find that out.

0699 said:
I'm starting to think Capt Faith is more involved in this then we know. Like Kevin Costner's character in No Way Out.

:ninja:
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lol, I'm not that creative. Faith is the hero of this story, remember? Plus I have it on pretty good authority that he doesn't dig BMWs.
 

Faith let out a loud sigh as he pulled out the Group alert roster and started thumbing through it to find James’ phone number.

“What are you doing, sir?” inquired First Sergeant Reynolds.

“Cleaning up someone else’s messes, again. Have you seen CPT James around in the last couple of days?” Faith asked him.

“No, but that’s not unusual, there are lots of folks I rarely see,” Reynolds responded.

“Roger,” Faith countered, “but it seems like no one has seen him at all in a couple of days. I’m going to get his number and give him a ring, to try to find out WTF is going on with him.”

Faith found James’ number and dialed it. He was surprised to hear a woman’s voice answer, but then remembered that James is married.

“Hello?”

“Um, hi, this is CPT Faith from 2nd Group,” Faith stammered, then recovering: “I’m calling for CPT James, is he in?”

“Look,” said the woman, who Faith assumed was Mrs. James, “I called you guys a week ago and told you that I found out my husband had been cheating on me. That’s a crime under Army law, right?”

“Yes, adultery is a crime under the UCMJ,” Faith answered.

“Well, I found out about it because there were a bunch of emails and pictures from his twiggly little blonde whore on this laptop he brought home and gave to my son. I kicked him out of the house and haven’t seen or heard from him since.”

Concerned, Faith asked, “You haven’t seen your husband in a week?”

“No.”

“We haven’t seen him either.”

There was silence for a moment and both Faith and Mrs. James mulled this over.

“That computer, your husband didn’t bring it home from work, did he?”

“I think so, maybe, yeah,” replied Mrs. James.

“Listen, would it be OK for me to send someone over to pick it up?” Faith asked.

“It belongs to my son now,” said Mrs. James, defiantly.

Thinking quickly, Faith stated, “Sure, but how can we take any action against your husband for cheating if we don’t have any evidence?” Before she could respond, Faith added, “Look, I have your address here, I’ll send someone over to get that laptop and we’ll see what we can do for you, OK?”

“Fine.”

When he hung up the phone, Faith saw Reynolds looking at him expectantly. “First Sergeant, please go get Chief Rollins and bring her in here, the three of us need to have a talk.” When Reynolds returned with Rollins, Faith explained the situation and dispatched Rollins and another Soldier to Mrs. James’ house to recover the laptop. As she left, Rollins commented, “Sir, you might want to let the Group S2 know about this.”
 
Marauder06 said:
“Look,” said the woman, who Faith assumed was Mrs. James, “I called you guys a week ago and told you that I found out my husband had been cheating on me. That’s a crime under Army law, right?”

“Yes, adultery is a crime under the UCMJ,” Faith answered.
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Yes and no...? I tried doing some research on this and I thought it kind of fell under a catch-all (Article 134), but is only applicable if it "embarrasses the military". This scenario I believe falls under one of the three, but not all acts of adultery seem to from what I remember.

If someone could clarify, that would be great.

So if it IS that laptop, there are a hell of a lot of other issues at hand that Faith needs to be worried about than just adultery... I think someone may be looking at a DD when this is all over?
 
Marauder06 said:
When Reynolds returned with Rollins, Faith explained the situation and dispatched Rollins and another Soldier to Mrs. James’ house to recover the laptop. As she left, Rollins commented, “Sir, you might want to let the Group S2 know about this.”
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Im assuming that the plan is to have the contents of the laptop exploited by the S2. Since you're dealing with American citizens, however, wouldn't this be an IO violation?
 

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