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26 Law & Ineq. 1 (2008)
Gentlemen under Fire: The U.S. Military and Conduct Unbecoming

handle is hein.journals/lieq26 and id is 5 raw text is: Gentlemen Under Fire: The U.S. Military and Conduct Unbecoming Elizabeth L. Hillmant Introduction .................................................................................. 1 I. Creating an Officer Class .................................................. 10 A. A Scandalous and Infamous Manner ...................... 11 B. The Military Art and American Gentility .............. 12 C. Continental Army Prosecutions ................................. 15 II. Building a Profession ......................................................... 17 A. Colonel Winthrop's Definition ................................... 18 B. A Stable Fraternity ................................................. 19 C. Old Army Prosecutions .............................................. 25 III. Defending a Standing Army .............................................. 27 A. As a Court-Martial May Direct. ............................. 27 B. Democratization and its Discontents ........................ 33 C. Cold War Prosecutions .............................................. 36 IV. Meeting the Proliferating Threats ................................... 42 A. The Gentlewoman Question ....................................... 42 B. Post-Cold War Diversity and Operations .................. 46 C. Recent Prosecutions ................................................... 51 C onclusion .................................................................................. 56 Introduction When it comes to military crime, the officer corps of the United States military occupies a space both protected and vulnerable. Military justice itself is officers' country,' a venue in which officers not only control criminal investigation and t. Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law-Camden. Versions of this Article have been read and critiqued by many generous scholars and friends. For their help, I am especially grateful to my colleagues at Rutgers-Camden, to audiences at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Davis, and Seton Hall law schools, to the New York LGBTQ law faculty workshop, and to Nancy F. Cott, Ariela Dubler, Alice K. Dueker, William N. Eskridge, Jr., Eugene R. Fidell, Katherine Franke, Kris Franklin, Suzanne Goldberg, Robert W. Gordon, Hendrik Hartog, Nan Hunter, Alice Kaplan, Linda K. Kerber, Jean Marie Lutes, Reva B. Siegel, Edward Stein, and Barbara Welke. All errors and oversights are my own. 1. Officers' country technically refers to places on a ship where enlisted personnel are not allowed. See Kristin K. Heimark, Sexual Harassment in the United States Navy: A New Pair of Glasses, 44 NAVAL L. REV. 223, 235 n.39 (1997).

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