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Subject: 'Battery Punishment or What?'

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 11:49:33 03/26/05 Sat

I was watching a programme the other night regarding the 'Swan Vesta's'and M.C.T.C.at Colchester. They interviewed this girlie who had got twenty-eight days for drinking in a restricted area (The Mens quarters) There were others, but she had been the only one that was caught! She had been put up on C.O's orders and had taken the 'rap' so to speak, and been made an example of! Don't think that it would have happened in our day, well not in the same context at least! The Regiment or specifically the Battery would have dealt with this 'In-House'and would not have gone to this extreme, unless of course she had pushed for C.O's orders thinking that she would get away with it without any punishment whatsoever!...Anyway I remember an incident that happened in Devizes concerning one of our own who was found to be guilty of theft from one of the lads in the same barrack room! Well before he went up on Order's the Sweat's got hold of him and had administered Battery Punishment to this offender basically breaking his fingers which though harsh, curtailed this individual from further offending. He had learn't a very valuable lesson that was dealt with effectively and without further recourse. Military justice though brutal worked as we never had any more re-offending of this nature again as far as I'm aware!
As they say...'Let the Punishment fit the Crime'. Everything in them day's was in black or white and we had very little to do in the grey area's which complicated the issues. We all knew where we stood in the pecking order of things and knew our limitations on how far we could push the limit without overstepping the mark! I only wish that you could say the same in today's modern Army!.......

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