On 2010-11-17 23:44:46 -0500, DaveS said:


You may not have been aware of this but you were also protected by
such arrangements formalized for military personnel in what are known
typically as "Status of Forces" agreements.

Come on, Dave. You know better than that. Status of Forces agreements
were meant to protect U.S. Forces from the courts of the country they
were serving in, *up to a point*. If you assaulted someone, or
committed some other crime, you were tried by the military and not that
country's court. This has nothing to do with SoF.

BTW, I know of a CT chief (my supervisor in Japan) who killed a
Japanese citizen while DUI. He was tried in a Japanese court and
served 5 years in a Japanese prison.

Dave