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I don't know much about the army or the marines, so you'll have to excuse the mistakes. It may certainly be the case that a navy brig is no cakewalk, but I don't see how that has any bearing on his sentencing. I assume they won't be sending him to something like a Russian gulag, and he gets to live, which is more than the victim got. I'm glad to hear that he'll probably serve the full term, but I thought the full term was light to begin with. To respond to your last point, the jury also convicted him of conspiracy to commit murder. So he conspired to commit murder but it wasn't premeditated which seems baffling to me. There was another article(op-ed I think) that made the point that he would have gotten an automatic life sentence if they had convicted him of premeditated murder, which is why they didn't.
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