Just on a note of historical-comparative curiosity, and addressed to
military readers only:
The narrator of the Kipling poem I quoted earlier
seems to have
(a) Got seriously drunk,
(b) Lost several items of his uniform thereby,
(c) Assaulted a corporal (the narrator hiself must have been at least a
lance-corporal: “they’ll cut away the stripes I used to wear…”), blacking
his eye and tearing his uniform shirt. It seems the corporal was on guard
duty at the barrack gate & challenged our narrator when he returned from his
drinking bout.
For this, the narrator got pack drill (i.e. parade-ground drill with full
40-lb backpack) and 2 weeks confined to barracks (i.e. in a punishment
cell).
What would be the equivalent punishment for these offenses in a unit of the
US army today? I think we can assume the unit is not in a combat zone.