This is not even the first time something like this has come up in the last year.
The troops stood in uniform behind Democratic party leaders as they offered an endorsement for former Vice President Joe Biden.
www.militarytimes.com
Those two appeared in uniform. But guess what the resolution was?
Nothing for those involved, a "Letter of Reprimand" for their supervisor. Nothing else.
This is the only thing I am looking at in this, to be honest. If this LCpl gets such a letter in his SRB, I would be fine with that. It is appropriate to the infraction. If it goes beyond that, then it is not in keeping with another action that could be even worse less than a year before, but involving the other political party.
But this could also become a "Landmark Case" if it goes higher, because that is actually one regulation that many (including the ACLU) has been saying is unconstitutional for years. But until somebody is prosecuted for it and it works its way through the appeals process, it still stands. Especially as Politicians have been parading those in uniform for decades in their events and nobody said a thing. Heck, how many in here knew about or questioned the event last year?
But for some reason, everybody knows and is screaming about this one. And apparently it is not the action itself, but the politician involved that has most of you all triggered. So tell me, should those other 2 Marines and the Democrats also be flayed alive? Or maybe boiled in oil and flayed alive, as they were actually in uniform and this one was not?
All I ever ask for is consistency.