While deployed in Kuwait, Rosales, a member of the Texas Army National Guard, threw a birthday party for her husband. Some of the guests allegedly brought alcohol, according to the Army, “in a nation where such substances are illegal.” She was investigated and fingerprinted by an Army investigator, but received nothing more than an administrative reprimand.
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But here’s the problem: Every branch of the military shares titling records in criminal databases with more than two dozen agencies, including the FBI, even if the case was dropped.
The fallout can be devastating because the records are retrievable for decades. Veterans can be passed over for promotions, rejected on apartment applications, and denied firearms clearance, advocates say. With the stain on their record, some struggle to get a job for years.
“Who will take my word over the plain text of the FBI’s criminal history?” Rosales, 39, asks in an affidavit in her lawsuit.
If you go to a country and break the laws, you broke the laws. It doesn’t say if the party was on a military base or not
The US military itself imports alcohol to Kuwait to provide to military members on holidays or very special occasions. Its rare, but they do it
Which is absurd. While deployed, there’s nowhere to relax and be themselves like every other human needs to do regularly. The bases should be considered “home” while off duty.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section892&num=0&edition=prelim
So I’m guessing that to be nice to the host country, there was an order for no alcohol. Having alcohol would technically be disobeying in order. I know it sounds ridiculous. I am not at all a fan of the military lol Or obedience
Can confirm. The US military follows host nation laws while over seas. That being said, they aren’t necessarily going out of their way to enforce those rules. The alcohol thing is common because people start acting stupid and cause a scene, but you should be fine to peg your boy as long as you keep the noise down.
That makes two of us, and this just reinforced that notion.