Over at the Coast Guard Report, Thomas Jackson has released a few documents concerning a Coast Guard petty officer who has been convicted of domestic violence. A sad state of affairs that the member’s former spouses and family live in fear that the member, who appears to still be on active duty, isn’t locked up and, perhaps, receiving the psychological help he needs.
I’ve seen many of the documents and pictures that Mr. Jackson mentions. Let me tell you, these paint a sordid tale. What’s most troubling to me is that it appears the the spouse has been caught in a web of privacy issues: No one in the Coast Guard has really helped her. No one has assured her that the member is not on the way north to do her harm. No one has seen to it that she and the family have received the support due them. It appears we have left the family by the side of the road.
It’s time for that to end.
I, for one, hope that the member’s seniors are watching him carefully, and that he’s packing his bags for a trip to the big house… and that Coast Guard officials will deliver him to the doorstep shortly.
And, it appears from where I sit, that the member has likely violated multiple articles under the UCMJ. Perhaps after his stay with civil authorities, he can work his way through the military justice system.
Honor. Respect. Devotion to duty. Domestic violence doesn’t fit.
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