I was enlisted Navy like she is. I was an E-5. Before demotion she was an E-8, a senior chief. They weren't officers but they sometimes did get a lighter sentence. That was 25 years ago so I don't know what has changed, but it probably has.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."