United States v. Claytor

There is no doubt that appellant was both a malcontent and irritant to the command. In short, he was a disciplinary recidivist as reflected in the chronology of his six masts. Equally clear to me is the measured, and more than fair, nonjudicial punishment imposed at the consecutive masts.1 *1035My focus, however, is on the appropriateness of the bad-conduct discharge for the instant offenses. After setting aside the failure to go offense, we are left with disrespect to a commissioned officer and willful disobedience of the order of a second class petty officer, concededly serious offenses on their…