Response to USCG marching in the Pride Parade.

Since the UCMJ was enacted in 1950 only a single known court-martial has occurred pursuant to Article 88.28 In United States v. Howe, an Army Lieutenant was convicted for carrying a sign during an antiwar demonstration that read “Let’s Have More Than A Choice Between Petty Ignorant Facists In 1968” on one side and “End Johnson’s Facist Aggression In Viet Nam” on the other side.29 Lieutenant Howe did not participate in organizing the demonstration, but merely joined it after it began.30 During the half-hour demonstration, Howe was offduty, in civilian clothes, and no one at the demonstration knew of his military affiliation.31 Howe came to the Army’s attention only because a gas station attendant, who Howe had asked for directions, spotted the lieutenant’s sign and an Army sticker on his vehicle and subsequently notified the local military police.32​

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