Kadena airman tells court of shame for actions

[unhappycamper]

Kadena airman tells court of shame for actions
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, September 11, 2008

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — A 25-year-old airman was reduced in rank and sentenced to four months of confinement Tuesday after pleading guilty to taking Ecstasy at a barracks party last summer and committing an indecent act with a minor at last September’s Okuma Fest.

Airman 1st Class Paul A. Tebbs, assigned to the 18th Munitions Squadron, also was fined $1,000 a month for four months. He could have received 10 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge.

During the half-day general court-martial, Tebbs admitted to taking part in an Ecstasy party in his barracks on the air base.

"I am ashamed that I made such a horrible decision," he told the judge, Lt. Col. Gregory Friedland.

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On Sept. 16, Tebbs and a group of friends rented a cabin at the Okuma Joint Services Recreation Center for the annual Okuma Fest. During the night, he flirted with a drunken 17-year-old Air Force family member, followed her into another cabin and engaged in sexual foreplay with her and a 31-year-old civilian man.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=57318

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. meh

It's OK for an 18 year old to have sex with a 25 year old but it's *not ok for those same to people 1 week before the 18th birthday?
The law draws a clear line at 18 but in the real world it's not so clear and varies case to case.

I'm not saying what the airman did was "fine" just that it's not something to be outraged about.