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1) He's in the Marines, not the Army. He'll serve his sentence in a Navy brig, which is no cakewalk. Ask Jose Padilla about that.
2) Military punishment isn't like civilian prison. There's generally no time off for good behavior in a sentence like this.
3) The jury dropped the premeditated murder charge, so I have to believe that there was something in the evidence that ruled that out.
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