Air Force Sexual Assault Scandal Even Worse Than We Thought

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7. It can vary.

Most are not pleasant. See:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/airforce_hardlabor_090408/

UCMJ vague on hard labor guidelines

By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Sep 4, 2008 13:12:58 EDT

For 35 days this summer, Pvt. John Suarez worked from 9 a.m. until midnight in a Kevlar helmet, full body armor and a packed ruck, digging foxholes at Fort Lewis, Wash.

His hands turned to sandpaper. His lower back felt like someone had kicked him. Every time he swung his pickax, soreness flooded his wrists.

“It was pretty exhausting,” said Suarez, 20, who was sentenced to 45 days’ hard labor in a summary court-martial after a urinalysis test came up positive for cocaine. “It was like dirt and rock. The soil here is pretty bad.”

DISCUSS: Hard labor

His first sergeant told him that his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Richard Demaree, of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, had ordered that Suarez could not do goal-oriented work; the foxholes were for naught.