Talk:Conduct unbecoming

The charge of "Conduct Unbecoming" runs concurrently with all other charges, so that if an officer beats the initial charges, there is no way to beat the charge of "Conduct unbecoming" becasue if the prior charges were so severe as to be brought to courtmartial, the conduct was unbecoming in the first place.

How often are these charges filed?

Would be useful for the article to discuss how often these charges are filed. Rare? Common? Once a decade? Tempshill (talk) 05:31, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

It's a catch all. Pretty much whenever an officer is charged with anything, Conduct Unbecoming is added as an additional charge. Quoting from the MCM: “This article includes acts made punishable by any other article, provided these acts amount to conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Thus, a commissioned officer who steals property violates both this article and Article 121.”76.27.142.209 (talk) 22:41, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

See also

The "See also" section, as it currently stands, is really just a "Trivia" or "In popular culture" section in disguise. As such it should be renamed, removed or heavily edited. -Miskaton (talk) 22:07, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Anybody ever charged with only this?

Is anybody ever charged only with "conduct unbecoming" and nothing else? The whole thing reeks of a rubber paragraph, as we'd say in German. -- 77.7.142.13 (talk) 23:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of. It's usually used in combination with other charges. However, people are frequently cleared of those other charges, and still come up guilty for "conduct unbecoming". Unlike most charges the onus really ends up being on the defense to disprove "conduct unbecoming", usually an impossible task given the circumstances that led the person to be courts-martialed in the first place. 111.233.9.100 (talk) 11:05, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 22 January 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure)  samee  converse  16:47, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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• Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman → Conduct unbecoming
• Conduct unbecoming → Conduct unbecoming (disambiguation)

– WP:NAMINGCRITERIA; the current name, while precise and recognizable, fails to meet the other requirements. It is not the natural term a person will search for, nor is it concise. The proposed name will better meet those requirements, while also being more recognizable (as the WP:COMMONNAME) and with little impediment to precision. The current name also reflects a specific line from the American Military Code of Justice, while this article also covers a similar, but not identical, phrase in British Military Law, and thus is somewhat inaccurate for this article. Finally, this is the WP:PTOPIC, and thus can take precedent over having the disambiguation page under the plain name. -- NoCOBOL (talk) 12:46, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

• Support per WP:CONCISE and WP:COMMONNAME. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:02, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
• Support first per WP:CONCISE and WP:WORLDWIDE. Dab page, however, should preferably be moved to Conduct Unbecoming, which already redirects there, because everything there uses a capital U. Station1 (talk) 00:03, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
• Support. Common name and primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:07, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
• Support, and put the DAB at the Capital U. 94.21.204.175 (talk) 14:15, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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Specific examples of the acts leading to this charge

The article lacks examples of the specific acts leading to this charge. For example, the US section says "That the accused did or omitted to do certain acts" but does not provide any examples of what those acts could potentially be. The article ought to provide these examples either by citing instances of people charged with it or citing some sort of general list of charges. Thunderforge (talk) 19:55, 11 August 2023 (UTC)