Air Force Magazine quoth:
A senior House Armed Services Committee Democrat has asked the Air Force to explain why it's never court martialed a general officer, accusing the service of having "different spanks for different ranks."
The request came from Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the Military Personnel Subcommittee, during a Feb. 7 hearing on senior leader misconduct. During the hearing, Speier said she had a problem with the fact that “there have been 70,000 courts-martial in the Air Force, for instance, and not one general officer has ever been court-martialed.”
The 70,000 figure is reported to be a Protect Our Defenders estimate; the zero figure is confirmed. The
annual reports of the Code Committee that have been issued since the UCMJ went into effect in 1951 include data on the number of cases tried in each of the armed forces. For example,
the first such report indicates (at p. 31) that the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force received 2822 records of trial in the year ending May 30, 1952.
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