Adultery in the Military - what are the possible consequences?

18+ years of child support.

Its an Article 134 violation, there are three elements that must be met to prove adultery existed. They are:

(1) That the accused wrongfully had sexual intercourse with a certain person;
(2) That, at the time, the accused or the other person was married to someone else; and
(3) That, under the circumstances, the conduct of the accused was to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces or was of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.


here's a link to some helpful information:

http://asktop.net/articles/3-elements-of-adultery-under-article-134/

The real consequences are not found in the Manual for Courts-Marshall.

Well, this is interesting. Reminds me of an incident at Rhein-Main before it closed.

It was a dark morning...
Ok, I'll spare the theatrics. A firefighter was gone with the base softball team playing in a tournament. He returned home a day early and caught his wife (who worked at the base gym and came off as very flirtatious) with another man in their bedroom.

That's the meat and potatoes of the incident.

Now, the amusing part. I'm scheduled to work Police-2 (housing patrol) the following morning. Because of the earlier events described above, I had to wait until the incident was resolved (I think it was initially declared a domestic). Anyway, my off going comes into the squadron with a pair of shoes and a brown paper bag. I asked what was all that. It's the guy's (guy caught with firefighter's wife) clothes was the response. Turns out, the guy panicked, ran out the housing unit (after being allegedly being pushed) butt-naked. He streaked across housing, went into another building and used a shirt to cover himself up. When he was brought in, they had him in a rain coat that was kept in the patrol car. So, on top of being charged with adultery, this guy was hemmed up for indecent exposure too. Probably one of the more memorable tales from my time in service.

Given recent reports he is probably looking at below the zone promotion to General Officer. I had a peer that slept with an E6s wife. He was an O-3 and made BZ to MAJ and BZ to LTC. You say something you get ostracized. The tag line was if you cant fuck you cant fight. This scumbag would assigned class rosters based on junior officers he thinks he could sleep with. Disgusting. He became branch manger and which screwed over my career. But Im happy to be getting out if he ie promoted ahead of peers.

Anyone got some butter for this piece of toast?

I did an article 15 on a SSG in a similar situation. reduction in rank, loss of 1/2 months pay for 2 months, 45 days extra duty and 45 days restriction. Basically the max allowed for a field grade AR-15. As investigating officer, I recommended court martial but the CoC really liked this guy and it was his first offense of any kind. I was told that court martials for adultery when that is the only offense committed are virtually unheard-of.

Where I have seen it prosecuted is when it is another solider's wife, because that affects good order and discipline. Do you want to have to deploy with someone who slept with your wife ?

To the original question, the maximum punishment that could be imposed under the UCMJ is a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and 1 year of confinement.

In reality, it's unlikely this goes to a General Court Martial. Typically, adultery cases are very difficult to prove (however, in this case, this does not appear to be the issue due to the pregnancy being strong evidence of sexual intercourse).

Typically they don;t do a CM for just adultery. Mostly just throw it in on someone who broke a whole slew of laws. Since it is an officer who is the aggrieved it will depend on whether he or his COC want to make a big deal out of it or just let it slip away and be forgotten.