She should have been ordered counseling. Perhaps she might have been transferred to another base. She might even have been fined or reprimanded. But it never should have come to this point. When she s confronted with it, she lies about her sexual relations with a guy.
More people lie about sex in America than any other subject other than golf.
And for this, she s all done. The Air Force has ruined this woman s reputation and cashiered a perfectly good pilot when anyone at all familiar with the Military Code of Justice could have informed the Secretary of the Air Force and the commanding general that there was a way to handle this right up top, in front, in the house, and it never should have gotten to the point where it got. I think the Air Force did handle it correctly. But the facts frankly were a lot more complicated than that. In that case, had the Air Force granted an honorable discharge under those circumstances it would have created enormous morale problems within the ranks, and it would have undermined good order and discipline.