Technical Point
Captain Walden misquotes an article of The Uniform Code of Military Justice when she defines Mutiny. Mutiny and sedition are outlined in Article 94 of the UCMJ, not "section 28J" as she mentions in the film.
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Well, let's see you properly quote military justice code you learned years ago while having been without sleep for days, losing massive amounts of blood, in constant severe pain, under enemy fire, and fearing for your life from your OWN men! C'mon, you'd be crying for momma.
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Commissioned officers in the United States Military (regardless of branch or MOS) must learn and be able to apply the UCMJ because as a COMMANDER they need to know what article or punnishment would need to be applied to any given infringement of regulations. I don't know if the writers misquoted the UCMJ but I do know that she would have known what reg was being broken
shareThe Manual for Courts Martial is an almost 2 inches thick soft cover book. The only officers I know that have it memorized are the lawyers.
shareIs there a section 28J *in* Article 94?
shareNot as I read it. There are only six subsections. But you can read it here:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/mcm94.htm
If you've read it, I'm sure you're right. I've never looked at it; it was just a suggestion.
shareAnd a lucid, intelligent suggestion at that. I have this bad habit of pointing out the obscure technical stuff.
I think I did it with this movie because it was so realistic and just plain good. Ed Zwick is a magnificant film maker and every actor in this film was excellent. I hope Zwick can repeat the feat with a movie about the current war in Iraq.