you have abandoned your integrity, the first and most important character trait of anyone in the armed forces.
Way to go.
So, before we go off telling someone in the U.S. military the have "bandoned their integrity", are going to tell me that since joining the military you have not uttered a single lie to ANYONE, or broken ANY law or civil code (speeding), or ANYTHING? becasue those would be just as much not having perfect integrity also as the 1 lie he told (and as far as you know, that is the one and only time he did anything even close to that ever since joining).
Before we malign a soildier integrity, I'd be REALLLY careful I had a 100% perfect, spotless life first, or I would have NO room to be judging.And before someone says that a tiny lie to the a a grocery clerk, or speeding, is "not as bad" as lying to his command, it doesnt matter. ANYTHING you do that you know is not 100% correct, honest,legal, and moral, is lacking in integrity.The degree matters not, as lacking is lacking.
Just something to think about before we go acusing others of "abandoning thier integrity", which to those in the military is a VERY serious slam on them, IMHO. I sure hope you have lived a 100% perfect, spotless life while in the military, you would be showing a lack of HONOR, which is no better that waht you are accusing.I'd be careful with words like that.You know as well as I do that they are taken WAY more seriously by militray members than it likely would be by most others, and it is a serious accusation.