Different punishments for different ranks of the same crime. Should this be an EO violation?

In the first place, because rank is not a protected class, there is no way to charge EO violation based discrimination by rank. &nbsp;Race is a protected class.<div><br></div><div>In the second place, because rank confers coercive authority and ability to issue rewards for cooperative behavior and punishments for reporting, our officers should be held to a higher standard of behavior and given more credible, reliable, and harsher punishment for misbehavior.</div><div><br></div><div>In the third place, the fact our officers are management personnel in the military should make us hold them to higher level of accountability just like the we hold management personnel more responsible in the civilian world.</div><div><br></div><div>In brief, because officers are management personnel they should be held to a higher standard of accountability and punished far more severely.</div><div><br></div>

I knew a SFC at Fort Meade, he worked in BN S-1, who got busted for dealing crack or cocaine, I can't remember which it was. He kept wearing his rank and uniform, and was around the unit for months after being busted. We'd see him working after-hours in civvies in the S-1, probably his extra duty. It's been over ten years since it happened but I believe, if I recall correctly, that the explanation given was because his rank was basically an act of Congress, the punishment from BN/BDE could only be so much. Personally, I was floored that a guy who dealt a hard drug wasn't locked up. I feel certain that if that had been a SPC, that guy would have been stripped of rank ASAP, locked up, and probably in Leavenworth inside of a week.

Same thing with affairs. I saw a soldier get dropped all the way back to E1, confined to the barracks, and kicked out of the military on a sexual misconduct charge (the actual story was, he and his wife had a 3-way and the third party ended up reporting it). Yet we have generals who are allowed to retire, probably with a pretty decent package, and because of their rank, political connections, and duty positions they end up going on to be some senior big-wig at a corporation making bank.

I don't understand it. I never will. Sure, sure, I get that rank might have its privileges, but come on. This is a little absurd.

I maintain that for all NCO's, Warrant Officers, Petty Officers, and Commissioned Officers, the minimum punishments for all offenses in the UCMJ should be doubled. Tripled if alcohol is involved.