Can my son fight being chaptered out after drug use and DUI?

Back in the late 80’s I was stationed at Ft. Hood, Tx. There were some soldiers smoking marijuana inside a tank on a live fire excise when they fired on another tank killing all inside.

He is toast.

He didnt just make a mistake, he made two and one was a zero tolerance mistake

I'm not a lawyer,but drug use is prohibited at any time. Adding drinking and driving just added fuel to a flame that got out of control. Either one could lead to medical or dishonorable discharge. If the ucmj is lenient they may try rehab,but with both charges highly unlikely.

No...but drug & alcohol rehabilitation, therapy, and some self evaluation may do the trick

He was told the consequences of using drugs and drinking and driving when in basic. He decided to play Russian roulette twice and lost. Now he must pay for his mistakes. Sorry.

This isn't during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan when the Army needed people badly. It's going back to the nearly zero tolerance of the 90s when any drug use would get you kicked out without a second chance.
DUIs would sometimes be cause for a second chance if a lower rank and in the US. Higher ranks or overseas and people would be chaptered out very quickly.
Once you are caught you can't use rehab as a way to not get kicked out. Too late at that point.
He got busted using drugs, then a week later put other people at risk by drinking and driving. He's a good kid sure. He used up any possibility of a second chance almost immediately.

Good kid or not, illegal drugs + dui = chapter discharge.

The entire military went zero tolerance on drugs about a decide ago. DUI he could fight, but drug charge is an automatic BCD. He may be able to fight that with the army records board later, but the DUI on top of the drug charge will make that highly unlikely to succeed.

I suggest, that you get an attorney if you dont want him to go to the Stockade. Screwing up like that, the Army likes to train as a team and then when you screw up is on you. In a way is a real immature way of the government to protect there assets in the best way possible of having people trained. I used to do what the military told me to do, didnt question the chain of command. Didnt do drugs, never drank and was hooah. Did ten years four tours in Iraq. There was soldier in the barracks who were doing drugs. The chai. Of command didnt want to do nothing about. Guess what I figured out why Obama was president. So the military isnt always geared toward, what is right or wrong in doing what is best for the country reguardless of how they spin it. Let's say with me, my PTSD from the military was never confirmed and the crap mental health services. Was force feeding me medication that didnt have nothing to do with PTSD. All the while, I knew what was going on with me, Chain of command higher ups was getting on my ass about going. Like, I was embarrassing them even I'm some sort of way. Reguardless of there long term alcohol abuse themselves quite a few of them. Long story short. The soldiers who were doing drugs weren't arrested. From my old division that rhymes with scareborne. They discharged me with an OTH after serving all that time. So you know what I suggest get ahold of his commander and ask him or her. To just let him out as soon as possible. Becuase even though what these higher up Non-Commissioned officers are telling you. There is a whole lot that they aren't telling you too *wink* *wink* for the sake of the country. They pretty much, expect kids to be grown when they get in. They put forth efforts to make it known, not to do these things. That is for sure, I have never done it and are honeslty relatively disgusted, becuase what you son is consider is disgusting to the service. So try your best to get him out before he is rushed by the chain of command to the stockade.