No More Bread and Water: U.S. Navy Scraps an Age-Old Penalty

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel wow, I never knew that, softer and gently UCMJ IMHO.

On New Year’s Day, it will finally go by the boards.

A sweeping update of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 2016, will take effect on Jan. 1, bringing dozens of changes that are intended to make the system fairer and more efficient. Most are the kind of procedural tweaks that concern lawyers, not sailors. But the bread-and-water part will be felt on all decks.


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Once had a sailor was eligible for B&W, none of us in the chain of command could recommend it, it seemed just too harsh...

Shortly thereafter, I think the only ones eligible to proscribe it were the shore brigs..

Don't mind the change, always thought if you had to resort to that, you had already failed as a leader, and we had in the one sailor's case (although he did straighten up after).

I didn't know the Navy could still do that, I think there are a lot of other things that could be done without cutting healthy food rations. That did seem like something left from the middle ages.