Lights & Sirens - Soldier accused of pimping teens now faces federal charges | The News Tribune | Tacoma, WA
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Members of the Army – and the Marines, Navy and Air Force, for that matter – reflect the society they come from.
The average 19- or 20-year-old soldier is smarter, better disciplined and more law-abiding than his or her civilian peers. But soldiers aren’t immune to America’s social problems, and they sometimes carry those problems from civilian life into the service.
The death of Lakes High School sophomore Leah King in a Fort Lewis barracks last February has forced a hard look at drug abuse on the post. A just-concluded Article 32 hearing for Pvt. Timothy E. Bennitt – in whose room King died of an overdose – clearly points toward a serious breakdown of discipline among some of the young soldiers there.
The issue here is not only that the girl died. The soldier provided it for a minor, snuck her onto fort in his trunk, and failed to follow proper protocol for the Army. If you mess up or break laws in the service, there are serious punishments. It illegal to commit adultery in the army. You literally go to jail (if you get caught). See my point?