Yeah, I’ve read that too and wouldn’t advocate that for anyone, hence the statement about adequate prison standards. Philippines may not be up to scratch, but surely Japan would be. And any western country where a crime may be committed should have adequate facilities.
Well the obvious problem is that US servicemen are prone to becoming proxies for any anti-US sentiment, be that in Japan, Philippines, or wherever. Obviously the US government needs to protect its personnel from such an event, and so assumes the right to punish its own despite whatever crimes being committed in other countries.
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Well the obvious problem is that US servicemen are prone to becoming proxies for any anti-US sentiment, be that in Japan, Philippines, or wherever. Obviously the US government needs to protect its personnel from such an event, and so assumes the right to punish its own despite whatever crimes being committed in other countries.
HG[/quote]
Well said, HG.
Military bases do not keep prisons. They have small holding areas. But bad apples are shipped out to “re-education” camps, like in Okinawa, a boot camp like program that makes the miscreants fitter, and they re-learn the UCMJ. I met a guy who did a few months there when I was in Japan. When he came back I was now assigned his bunk, and his shit had been packed and sent AHEAD of him to the grunts in CA. His response was to climb the outside of the barracks to my window on the second floor and bash on it at 3AM.
But he came down after I didn’t answer for 10 minutes. See? Re-education works! But he was just a fuck up, not a rapist.
Them guys are sent to Kansas.
However, a Marine did serve time in a Japanese jail AFTER his military sentence was up. That seems fair to me. He killed a woman.