On 30 Aug 2016 at 19:45, Freelance Traveller wrote:

> I'm going to, once again, see if I can come up with a story that's
> worth sharing if it gets completed. (Yes, I said 'if'. I don't have a
> very good record on that score...) My current idea is to start the
> story with the flashback to the day that the protagonist was 'read
> out' of the service (or whatever you wish to call the event).
> Unfortunately, I don't have very many examples of such a 'ceremony',
> and I'd like some ideas. Does anyone have any that they'd like to
> share? They can be real-world, fictional, from any service, club,
> clan, et cetera, a mash-up of any combination of the above, whatever,
> as long as the result 'feels realistic'. (Yes, I more-or-less recall
> the Honor Harrington scene where Pavel Young was drummed out of the
> RMN, and also the scene from ST:TNG where Worf was discommended.)

If you can locate a copy of the first episode of the old Chuck
Connors tv series "Branded" it has him getting drummed out of the Us
Cavalry for cowardice.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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