Originally Posted by
onetrack
If he'd been an Aussie Digger (Australian Serviceman - noted for their thumbing of their collective noses at "protocol" and "royalty" and anyone with their head so far up their ar$e, they can see their esophagus), he'd have certainly have been disciplined as well.
However, in the AMF, he'd probably get 14 days CB for "conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline".
14 days CB means you're Confined to Barracks, and you have to spend some serious amounts of time jogging around a parade ground or up a nearby hill wearing full pack. It's designed to curtail enthusiasm for "pranks" - and it largely works.
Being jailed for 21 days seems to me to be a little over-the-top and unproductive. Being yelled drill instructions by a senior NCO who would rather be elsewhere, than drilling undisciplined members of the forces, is a better way of instilling the discipline that the unruly member lacked.
Instilling self-discipline via the application of external discipline has been the modus operandi of all disciplined military forces since time began.
The clown behaviour whilst on parade, and on public display, shows an inclination towards juvenile behaviour - not the behaviour of a responsible adult who exercises self-discipline.
Disagree. Military jail is not like civvy jail. He will most certainly have spent his 21 days being yelled at by SNCOs. A whole Corps of them, the Military Provost Staff Corps, who run the Military Corrective Training Centre. A whole world of hurt for 3 weeks. Drill, PT, battle PT, polishing and pressing anything and everything.
"CB" is somewhat similar to "Jankers' or Restriction of Privileges. Detention is basically the same thing 24 x 7 rather than just before and after normal work. Yes, ROPs is a ballache because you have to do both that and normal work, but not in the same league as detention.