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Originally Posted by sappersgt
Did PV2s Blueskid and Bluesbuddy escape the nabobs of officialdom or does this go back to their...(CO?)?  |
I'm not sure if this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, but...
It's all over and done with. The police didn't make an arrest record (they have to note that they actually had him in custody, of course), but as far as official status goes, they put it down as 'medical observation', for cases just like this: dumb stuff that shouldn't screw up an otherwise good record.
If he'd done anything but go into 'yessir/no sir' mode when the cop rolled up on him, though, the option to ratchet up the Hassle Meter is always there. The cops wouldn't have had the option of 'medical observation' if the drunk they're dealing with is belligerant. Luckily, the fight seems to have gone out of him by then.
They took him into custody basically to make sure he's not going to get himself hurt, hence, 'medical observation'.
When it's done that way, NObody can get at the records, because it's protected under the Health Information Protection Act, and not even his parents can see it, or even know it exists. Which is cool, right?
BUT...I told him he WILL be telling his recruiter about it. (Until he actually reports to Basic Training, the recruiter is the closest thing to a commander that he's got, but because of all the limitations that non-commanding authorities have, the recruiter isn't very close to that role at all. There's a lot of power in the title 'Commanding Officer'.) I don't want him getting used to 'lying by ommission' to NCOs or anybody else. I wouldn't tolerate it in my people, and I don't want him thinking that it's proper to not let his chain of command know about things like this. If there's pain coming his way, he should face it like a man.
So the lad squirted out of his first scrape with no damage. I just hope he doesn't learn the wrong lesson, or fail to learn anything at all from this. If he feels invulnerable, he'll get cocky, and while some swagger is good in a military man, there is NOTHING that will get you hammered like arrogance. He's not prone to that sort of thing, but I'd have preferred a BIT more pain to go with this REALLY stupid episode.