I cannot determine if the punishment provided was fair, but I must assume it to be within the legal safeguards of AR 27-10 and the UCMJ. This process is further protected when the Article 15 is reviewed by JAG for legal compliance.
With that stated, a Commander can consider daily performance and attitude to assist in determining appropriate punishment. Also keep in mind if you have done several things and are pending an Article 15 they must all be rolled into one Article 15 for punishment. So it is possible another offense or action was considered with regard to your punishment.
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CSM is of course correct. For example, they may believe that the corrective training wasn’t successful in that it didn’t stick, you didn’t get the message, and here you are, you are in trouble again. A commander considers that there is more to corrective training than just completing it and checking a block. Did you learn a lesson, did you understand the lesson, did you apply the lesson. Here the commander appears to think you did not get the message from the past? There’s also an underlying attitude or approach. For example, you are having problems properly PMCSing (?) (I was going to say PMS’ing, but that’s Navy talk) equipment. They believe it is sloppiness and dereliction. not inability. They give you counseling and corrective training. You complete the reading assignments and several practice demonstrations to your leadership. Sure, that’s technically completion of the training. But, is the person’s attitude toward the need for better job performance accepted and applied, etc.?
Also, keep this in mind. Under the rule of United States v. Pierce, you can be at court-martial for actions that were previously disposed of at Art. 15/NJP. This is an exception to the 27-10 point CSM has listed above. If convicted at court-martial you then get sentence credit for any punishment at Art. 15/NJP. So for example.
A person gets counseling, rehab training, EMI. Then they have more problems. So now it’s Art. 15/NJP. And they have still have problems. It could be court-martial next, and all of the prior stuff (within five years) can be prosecuted at court-martial if they wanted.