tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post4112816681176057549..comments2023-10-29T05:29:58.599-04:00Comments on Right-Side-of-Lowell: Shooting OffenseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-79964982785790377602014-02-14T14:31:14.508-05:002014-02-14T14:31:14.508-05:00from my daze as a First Sergeant.....and recalling...from my daze as a First Sergeant.....and recalling some of my UCMJ training at the First Sergeant Academy.....forcing a safeguard is one of those UCMJ punitive articles that is rarely used and as a result...very poorly understood.<br /><br />A safeguard is a high and mighty term for a posted guard whose duty is to protect a person or place on orders of his or her superior commander. As a posted guard, he is immune to the Laws of War and Laws of Armed Conflict. That is, he is not to be attacked in the performance of his guard duty. <br /><br />I think that it got its greatest exercise as a punitive article in the Civil War, most likely WWI and WWII when guards were assigned to protect captured men or materiel of the enemy....and for one reason or another....the guard was violated by our own troops to loot or defile what was being guarded.<br /><br />In nearly 2 decades of being involved one way or another with the UCMJ and its administration....I don't recall anyone being charged or punished under that article.Nealnoreply@blogger.com