[MMike]

"Negative, Ghostrider. The pattern is full"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002268294_pilots09.html

Whaterya gonna do eh?

 

[douglas]

.....pleaded guilty last week at his court-martial to charges of negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, property destruction and failure to obey orders.

Rogers was sentenced to 120 days without pay at Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas. He also must retire from the Army but will retain his pension.

 

[MMike]

Must be nice to be in the military and not have to answer for your stupidity...

 

[ummbikes]

Must be nice to be in the military and not have to answer for your stupidity...

Losing his career and doing a couple months in jail is accountability.

 

[MMike]

And had he been joyriding in the "real world" with the same amount of casualities, (ignoring the millions in property damage) he wouldn't have done more than 120 days?

 

[Ciaran]

Losing his career and doing a couple months in jail is accountability.

If it was a civilian we would have been in jail for many years, lost his job AND pension (probably more too). Losing his career and a couple of months in jail is NOT accountability, let alone justice.

 

[ummbikes]

If it was a civilian we would have been in jail for many years, lost his job AND pension (probably more too). Losing his career and a couple of months in jail is NOT accountability, let alone justice.

Really?

For a first offender, shesh, he wasn't even drunk...

 

[douglas]

Losing his career and doing a couple months in jail is accountability.

if that was your brother or dad or son that died, would you say the same thing?

 

[ummbikes]

if that was your brother or dad or son that died, would you say the same thing?

What do you what? These guys are the tip of the spear, it's sad that people died, but the behavior of the pilot is not un-common. I know people who are training to be fighter pilots and risk taking and aggressive behavior are what they seek in these kids and what got these guys there jobs. I couldn't do it. Warriors are risky by nature. The system is what it is. Should this guy get executed? Sorry my bleeding heart has been cauterized, life is a dangerous thing, people died the Army clipped the pilots wings and fired him. Sounds plenty good to me.

 

[Ciaran]

What do you what? These guys are the tip of the spear, it's sad that people died, but the behavior of the pilot is not un-common. I know people who are training to be fighter pilots and risk taking and aggressive behavior are what they seek in these kids and what got these guys there jobs. I couldn't do it. Warriors are risky by nature. The system is what it is. Should this guy get executed? Sorry my bleeding heart has been cauterized, life is a dangerous thing, people died the Army clipped the pilots wings and fired him. Sounds plenty good to me.

The thing is that had this pilot been following the rules, no one would have died. After all the pilot plead GUILTY to negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, property destruction and failure to obey orders. Which means that he admitted it was his fault. No one is asking for his head, just expressing our displeasure, and dissapointment in his punishment.

 

[ummbikes]

The thing is that had this pilot been following the rules, no one would have died. After all the pilot plead GUILTY to negligent homicide, reckless endangerment, property destruction and failure to obey orders. Which means that he admitted it was his fault. No one is asking for his head, just expressing our displeasure, and dissapointment in his punishment.

Fair enough. So how much jail time?

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

15 years per each reckless murder outside the battlefield, and 1 year per each million bucks...
that should teach em a lesson about being "law abbiding citizenship"...

 

[Ciaran]

Fair enough. So how much jail time?

There I think, is a more difficult question to answer. It is easier to say that 120 days is too little as it seems to be very little. How much on the maximum end is more difficult, I think. Jail is a very bad place to be, and depanding on the person, can be a very severe punishment.

I honestly cannot say how much would be a suitable amount of jail time.

 

[MMike]

These guys are the tip of the spear, .

But he flew the spear into the ground!