Court Opinion

ID: 8574980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 15:14:26.450566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:54:00.878835
License: Public Domain

Darden, Judge
(concurring in the result) :
Today many enlisted members of the armed forces have educational qualifications, intellectual capacity, and social standards that surpass those of some officers. Nonetheless, fraternization may have a pernicious influence on military discipline. Despite my awareness of this, I must record my conviction that undue familiarity between an officer and a subordinate is susceptible of correction by administrative action.
Since the principal opinion treats the offense of fraternization as not being separately punishable, the result is the one I would reach because of my reservations about treating this practice as a crime.