WWII Discharge Papers Question

Marc Kuklinski

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Mar 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/19/98

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In the Remarks section of my father's Discharge Papers it list:
1 Day lost under AW107

What did this mean?

What was AW107?

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Marc Kuklinski
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Marc Kuklinski

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Bill Shatzer

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Mar 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/19/98

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In a previous article, kukl...@mhtc.net (Marc Kuklinski) says:

>In the Remarks section of my father's Discharge Papers it list:
>1 Day lost under AW107
>
>What did this mean?
>
>What was AW107?

It means he was a bad boy - in a minor sort of way.

AW107 refers to the Articles of War, Article 107 - the predecessor
of today's Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Presumably he spent a day in the brig/guardhouse for some real
or imagined military indiscretion and thus was docked one
day's credit on his time served in the military.

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Bill Shatzer - bsha...@orednet.org

john bsharah

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"AOW" refers to the Articles of War, which covered, among other things,
discipline during wartime. I believe they were incorporated into the
modern Manual for Courts Martial sometime in the 50's. Just which article
107 was will take more expertise than I can offer, but I would venture a
guess that it would be pretty close to the modern Article 107 of the Manual
(sounds like they kept the same numbering scheme). I can't lay my hands on
my copy right now, but my guess is that it was very minor punishment for
some infraction that involved either a day on restriction or in the
stockade, therefore resulting in a day "lost time" which had to be made up
(it didn't count toward time served or retirement). I hasten to add that
this type of punishment, and indeed even loss of rank, was far, far more
common than in modern times, when that sort of thing would effectively end
your career. During the 30s and 40s it was an everyday occurrence that no
one gave a second thought to; virtually every enlisted man lost a stripe
now and then (so I'm told). My Dad lost two days and two weeks pay for
giving a beer to a "native" in the South Pacific. Probably some JAG vet can
nail this down a bit closer for you.

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Marc Kuklinski <kukl...@mhtc.net> writes:
> In the Remarks section of my father's Discharge Papers it list:
> 1 Day lost under AW107
>
> What did this mean? What was AW107?

I'd guess that it's Article of War 107, but I haven't
the foggiest notion as to what it means.

If you're in the US, contact the nearest Government
Documents Repository, which will be at a large public
or academic library somewhere in your state (look
in the phone book's blue pages for USG Depository
Library). They should be able to help you out.

Ed Frank

JCDrews

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Mar 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/20/98

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AW is Article of War. I do not have a copy of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of
Military Justice), but that is where you can find out what Article 107 is.
That is to say, he was punished for some disciplinary infraction -- he lost one
day's pay, hence one day "bad time". His offense was probably very minor,
given the light sentence!

John M. Atkinson

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jcd...@aol.com (JCDrews) wrote:

This must have been revised. In the 1994 Edition of the Manual for
Courts-Martial, Article 107, Uniform Code of Military Justice, is the
Article covering false official statements. I believe this covers
lying to MPs, so the gentleman in question may have tried to pull a
fast one on some MPs and simply given an administrative punishment.

John M. Atkinson

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