A Fish Story? Paratrooper Who Completed Final Jump With Pet Fish Receives UCMJ

The rules are not to be interpreted but obeyed. When you are airborne you are an elite trooper. An article 15 was too light !

Safety is important.

I'm sorry! That is funny! Go easy on him brass!

Balls. Big balls.

Maybe the fish identifies with the flying fish variety and it needed to get its wings.

Only reason he got in trouble was because of Social Media. Otherwise he's free and clear. Leniency should be shown as I've seen much worse get less punishment.

Ohh ahh AIRBORNE!

Kudos! Troop now has a good story to tell at his next assingment as well as proof !
Go Fish !

Back in the day, this would have just resulted in some remedial training. Make him wax the barracks floors, clean a head, PT the shit out of him or something. Things like this don't deserve permanent scars on his record.

Could have just left the kid alone and not been jerks about it. And they wonder why all the good ones wanna get out as soon as they can. I guess that unit had absolutely no other problems to deal with so they chose this to waste time and resources on....