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************************************************************************************ @Troy Smollett's family was being supportive, but I don't think I would have stood by him after his lies were exposed. His sister must have had a difficult decision, especially when factoring in the impact on her own acting career. I was in a training battalion, and the soldiers that the parents were calling about were just starting out in their military careers. So I can relate to them wanting to get involved, but they shouldn't have. More recently, a childhood friend of my Husband's, called him to ask for his help regarding her grandson. She had raised her grandson as her own child. My Husband is retired military, served for thirty years, he achieved the highest enlisted rank, Sergeant Major, and was a Command Sergeant Major for over ten years. He knows a lot of people and has connections. His friend's grandson was a commissioned officer, he was a Major stationed in Germany. His wife stayed in the U.S. with their children, she went to Germany to visit him and found out he was having an affair. And the husband and wife got into a physical fist fight. It must have been a doozy because military police were called. Anytime the MPs are involved, the incident goes onto a blotter report that's distributed to all units/commanders the next morning, and everybody knows about whatever happened. It could be a child or wife got caught shoplifting from the PX, a traffic stop, or whatever, the soldier is going to be held accountable by his chain of command if their name is on the blotter. So the Major was in all kinds of trouble and was about to lose his commission and be discharged from the military when his grandmother called my Husband. She asked if he could help, and he told her there was nothing he could do about it. She said she was going to call their congressman. I could have told her that it would be better if she stayed out of it, I knew that she has a stubborn temperament and that she would not listen to me. I have been around the military all my life, and I knew that she was making things worse and wasting her time. If he was going to have an affair, which is not permitted in the military even if geographically separated from a spouse, he should have been more discreet and not brought his side piece to his apartment where his wife would find evidence. They never should have had a physical fight, where either one of them could have been injured. For a commissioned officer, this was not acceptable. So now the Major's whole military career is gone, his wife divorced him, his future had been bright and now it's trash. He lost his retirement pensions and everything else. Over some tail and not being more careful. Then beating up his wife. And grandmother getting involved did not help anything. ************************************************************************************