A U.S. sailor was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to 18 years in a military prison Thursday after being found guilty of espionage while working for the Navy in Japan.

Bryce Pedicini, a former chief petty officer fire controlman, was convicted of attempted espionage, failure to obey a general order and attempted violation of a general order through a court-martial procedure. He was assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins in Japan when he was taken into pretrial confinement last year.

According to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Pedicini delivered classified and national defense information for a foreign government official from November 2022 to May 2023. He engaged with the foreign official “under the guise of writing research papers,” it said. The Navy described that as a tactic U.S. adversaries increasingly use to obtain both classified and unclassified document.

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    5 months ago

    No. The existing UCMJ is perfectly adequate for dealing with these situations instead of resorting to barbarism like a bunch of uncivilized wretches. You don’t like it? Move to Russia.

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        5 months ago

        And you ain’t.

        I’m not the one suggesting throwing people alive into the sea when adequate solutions exist. Bloodlust is not justice and I’m sick of seeing that shit. Unfuck yourself.

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          Relax Francis. A bit of righteous hyperbole before bedtime ain’t gonna break the bank.

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            5 months ago

            How about instead you get it into your head that public discourse matters? How about you stand for something instead of parroting all the psychos society already indulges too much?

            There’s no reason for you to keep defending your initial unrighteous statement. Let it go.