This capricious, self-righteous officer who ordered the stand down is the one calling the shots. He is a familiar entity to me- he probably was delegated this position by his superiors-people too self-absorbed in their own agendas, who then abused it. This happens more often than not.

To people such as this officer, the UCMJ is a tool to get rid of people who irritate you. This is the military, where the Constitution takes second place.
People such as this officer surround themselves with brown nosers, and use intimidation to gain absolute authority, by singling out a person to use as a scapegoat to keep others in line. People then become afraid to report such abuse.

This is what I was trying to convey, only I did a poor job of it. The military is an entirely different world when it comes to the rights of soldiers and officers’ orders. Orders from a superior are usually held as incontrovertible, unless they’re considered egregious.

This is the random bad officer which is allowed to thrive thusly, due to the atmosphere of unquestioned authority. This is how crap like the stand down happens, because the Constitution isn’t part of a soldier’s rights. Basic training tells you that the military OWNS you, for as long as you enlisted.

The only way to get the Army to even address this is to continue blogging about it, just to make this problem go away.