A Fish Story? Paratrooper Who Completed Final Jump With Pet Fish Receives UCMJ

The fish is not the issue. The real issue is soldiers always trying to out do one another. Let this go and some other kid will try and one up this and on and in until someone gets hurt or killed. The leadership must address the situation or pay the price when something happens during a like situation. It ain’t personal it’s just the game.

Lol. He deserves everything he gets. Stupid enough to jump with a fish then stupid enough to film it culminated with stupid enough to post it. Just rewards.

Don’t see how it’s a big deal of any type, you jump with your rifle, you jump with your pack, he jumped with a bottle of water with a fish in it. Broke a rule I’m sure , there’s probably 1000 rules. It must have been well secured or the jump master would have taken it away. The proper punishment would be to make him do 1000 push-ups a day for a month. An AR 15 is over reach imo anyway.

I have been retired for a while. what exactly is the UCMJ offense? so many to choose from, but jumping with a fish was not listed

Missing old days when Brass would say dont do it again but that was f-ing awesome. This Spc is my hero for today.

Really, UCMJ over this. Ridiculous

Really, UCMJ over this. Ridiculous

GoPros didn't exist when I went through Airborne school, but I would have liked to do some visual record of my qualifying jump. Way back then, we were told "nothing in your pockets" and the Blackhats would have definitely found a water bottle. But I've heard Blood Wings are not allowed anymore, so I guess if I had to choose between getting blood wings and being able to jump with a GoPro, I'm happy that I graduated Jump School when I did.

Maybe its the army of today. You know sress cards and all but in the early eighties we did worse and just got some lutrien duty. Kids would never .ake the military in the 60 70 & 80s

Ya know, I can't really get mad at either Tattersall or his command. Yeah it was kinda reckless, he could have dropped the fish, or his phone, or been distracted and had a mishap, but he didn't, and took steps to ensure some degree of safety. He probably knew that putting the stunt on Facebook was gonna land him in hot water, and he seemed to accept that, so I'll gladly leave him alone. His command seemed to be more upset with the recklessness itself than anything else, because it wasn't like it was yet another oui, or some other criminal incident. So they basically said, "dude, quit screwing around." Had he not put it up on Facebook, things might not have even made it past his sergeant. Who knows. Either way, this guy's gonna be old and grey, and telling his grandkids about this with a laugh because it has the classic sea story touch to it.