SLXOwft :-
My understanding is that under UK service law, those lower down the command chain could find themselves on an enforced stay at HM's Holiday Camp, Colchester for a severe enough offence of "Bullying or mistreating a subordinate", does the US not take a similarly dim view?
A very salutary point. All are equal before the law, but some it seems are more equal than others before military law, particularly UK Military Law. Offences of issuing illegal orders by RAF VSOs under Air Force Law, rather than being investigated when reported (a duty of all ranks under military law), have been the subject of continuous cover-up since for more than thirty years. Those who defied these orders were hounded, persecuted, and dismissed. Ministerial opinion was issued that issuing such an order was correct, and disobeying it was a punishable offence. The order was to sign off aircraft and systems as airworthy, IAW the regulations, when they were not. The aircraft and systems concerned feature in some half dozen fatal accident threads on this very forum. Rather makes fiddling your flying hours pale into insignificance, I would have thought?