Did you get an Article 15? What was yours for?

No Article 15, but a Page 11 entry. Me and several other Marines declined to contribute to and participate in our alcoholic Gunny's regular informal Friday afternoon beer bashes so we were singled out and harassed. As the supposed ringleader of this horrid conspiracy I got written up 7 times in the course of a year. My OIC or the AMO tossed all of the write ups except one. My poor CO couldn't figure out if I was a good guy or a dick. I'd get written up one month, Letter of Appreciation from outside my command the next month, written up the next month, Letter of Commendation the following month, then written up again, then promoted to E-4, then written up, etc. Every month I was in front of his desk for either an atta boy or a write up. The charge that finally had me standing tall in front of his desk was for "displaying a poor attitude in the work center". He asked me why I had a bad attitude. I told him if they would stop giving me BS write ups my attitude would probably improve! He laughed it off and knocked it down to a Page 11 entry. Told me I wasn't a real Marine until I had at least one Page 11 and he'd see what he could do about the situation. Two months later I was transferred overseas to a MUCH better unit. I heard later that the Gunny in question was retired for "medical reasons" a couple of months after I left.

MISSED A DAY OF WORK AFTER THEY TOLD ME I WAS BEING KICKED OUT BEING GAY AND...GOT DRUNK AND NEVER CALLED IN !!!!

I should note that I almost got one and almost reduced in rank (threatened by the CO) when my troop had a negligent discharge of a blank round inside a clearing barrel. It was during training at JRTC and after several hours of training. I didn't notice he still had a magazine in and so charged the round.

I was so pissed that they would reduce my to an E4 over something so stupid. Luckily, I had kissed the CSM's ass just a week before, so he put his 2¢ in and saved me.

Probably the greatest stain in my career next to not being able to complete the obstacle course at Air Assault school was my article 15.
Yes it was my fault but at the same time S1 failed to remind me about some CG policies that were put out when I got to Fort Campbell. 2004 I got to Campbell being married but to a BS marriage. My ex just used me for money and also found out she was a habitual liar and con artist.
Well after my divorce, I did turn in paperwork to switch my BAH to single rate so I can move off base. While being married she lived in GA and I was KY. I was ordered by my 1SG at the time to give her ALL my BAH money so I was stuck in the barracks. But following the divorce I was reminded about the CG policy for SGT and below soldiers to stay in the barracks.
Well time went on after some attempts to get my rates to change and never did. I was in the process of PCS to Korea after going to SLC and now its 2013, during the process of getting ready for PCS, finance told me I had to pay the money back which I was going to do.
I also had to go in front of the Brigade commander with a field grade article 15. However, with no matter what I said and pleaded for mercy I was still found guilty. I lost my SSG down to SGT. I was to loose pay that was suspended and had to serve 18 days of extra duty. I then had to ETS because of loss of rank I hit a retention mark.
Thankfully I got a separation pay I though would pay all my debt back, but taxes hit the money back and I still had to pay a few thousand back over time.
I was also thankful I was still able to get out with honorable conditions and transition to the Guard. Now I am a SFC and looking to be a 1SG in a two or three more years. Still need to complete MLC but I have to wait for my knee to heal following a meniscus root repair surgery.

1965 - Living off post and was 10 minutes late for morning formation. art 15 was for two weeks extra duty. A week later got the reup talk. Said no.... lol

I was hunted down by the Security Alert Team at King Salmon, AK in 1976. It seems that we had a drug dog brought in from Elmendorf. I was.returning to the base after camping for two days. I dropped my gear in my barracks room and since I kept my guns off base, my camping partner took my guns to his mother in law’s car and went to pick up the keys at her office in the base NCO club. He hopped in the car and started driving when he noticed the “black bag” was missing.. About that time, I was apprehended by the SAT team and their radios were broadcasting that “Sgt McKellar is in custody.”

I was taken to the law enforcement office and we waited for the dog and the base commander to come in. The two SSgts stood smugly by and then asked me to identify if the black back was mine? I acknowledged it was. The dog walked past my bag without alerting and the two NCOs looked at each other like “oh, crap!” I was asked to open the bag, but before I did, I explained it had guns, some ammo and a pound of reloading powder. I pulled the guns out and they scrutinized the powder to ensure there were no drugs present.

After the matter was done and there were some threats made to me that I didn’t acquiesce to, I ended up with a “Non Punitive Letter of Caution”.. A moratorium was announced for anyone who had guns in their rooms to get them off the base or in the armory.

I had my Article 15 for assault with another recruit on the Fort Benning intake process before we were assigned to training company. I came to BCT flagged with additional details for 15 days. SPC Mata I awfully sorry for that.

My transgression didn’t earn an Article 15 (known as office hours in the Marines), but like some others, it probably should have.

In ‘81 I was a L/Cpl with 10th Marines Regimental Comm at Camp Lejeune. One Friday we were told at morning formation that we were going to mount up and go out in field on an unannounced Comm exercise. Naturally we were all bummed out since we had no advance notice and most of us had plans for the weekend. My plans had entailed hooking up with a female Marine to go to a party off base on Saturday night.

Once we got setup in the field, my section was given first watch on Saturday. I immediately came up with a plan to make my date.

After I got off watch at 1600, I figured nobody would miss me until I had watch the next morning, so I stashed most of my gear in my 2 man tent and jogged the 5 miles or so back to my barracks. In those days the barracks were open squad bays. My squad bay was on the second floor. Our head was just outside the squad bay and had two side by side doors, one in and one out.

So I made it back to my barracks, took a shower, got dressed in jeans and an AC/DC concert t-shirt, then went to the head on my way out to take a leak.

As I was exiting the head through the out door, the in door swung open and in passed MSgt Richardson, in full deuce gear, helmet, 45 on his hip, and as he passed me he says “how’s it going Winch?” I replied “good, top” as I went out the door and took off down the stairs at full speed hoping he wouldn’t realize I should have been out in the field. As I hit the bottom of the stairs I realized my luck had run out when I heard him bellow, “Winch! Get your ass back up here!”

I trudged up the stairs as he stood at the top unleashing a string of profanities and told me to get my gear on and that I was going back to the field with him in his jeep. Then he told me to not get in uniform, to just get my gear because he wanted me to report to Maj Savon, the regimental comm OIC dressed like I was. The five mile ride back to the field felt a lot longer as I was getting torched the entire time by MSgt Richardson. When we got back, I followed Top to the Major’s tent and reported to him in jeans and my AC/DC T-shirt. The Major asked me why I had done what I did, and when I told him, he went off on a tirade about letting the little head think for the big head, etc. He also told me to get in uniform and he was going to come up with a special punishment for me.

He and Top let me worry for a few days, then the morning that we were scheduled to strike the camp the Major announced to everyone that he had decided to leave the camp setup until we were scheduled to come back out for the next Comm Ex in about three weeks. He then announced that I was going to be staying at the camp to guard it for the entire three weeks. That was my punishment. Instead of getting an article 15 for being absent from my place of duty, I spent the next three weeks living in a tent in the August heat eating C rations, drinking water from a water buffalo, and battling marauding raccoons trying to go through my gear at night. I would be visited by the OD and the NCOD from time to time to make sure I wasn’t absent and a couple buddies brought me some beer a couple times, but overall it was a hot, sweaty, boring three weeks. I know I got off lightly.

Got 2 on my first 3 years. Still made SSG in 6 yrs lol

1- Hohenfels. punched a guy who was hassling a buddy and reaching for a cot end for a weapon. It wasn’t my first fight so a price had to be paid.

2- got caught smoking hash at a Who concert and ended up on the blotter report. This one cost me E-4 to E-3.

I was an E-3 and new to Germany. I was in country maybe about 2 months when I went with some others downtown to "experience" the night life. Needless to say, I got rather turned around. I left the group I was with, somehow, and ended up in a little kiosk on the outskirts of the kaserne. After I had my fill, or ran out of money, I can't recall what happened first. I went back to the barracks and passed the CQ and went to my room. Sometime during the night, this is the part I was informed about, I went into Tops office and decided to relieve myself on his desk. The CQ apparently thought it was comical, and I was escorted back to my room. That morning, when Top came in around 0400, I was awakened from my slumber. Keep in mind, I recall none of this. But, less than a month later I got my ART15. no one let me live it down, I just wish I could remember it, or at the least recall some of it.
6 1/2 years wasted.