...different services, different organizations, same base. (NATO job) OM is his COs deptuy at the base hospital...he's a former dustoff pilot. From what I gather, the CO is sticking his head in the sand on this one. OM and CO are on a friendly basis. Based on conversations with the OM's wife and another officer's wife, the CO knows what is going on. Apparently the CO is somewhat wishy washy on discipline matters and delates all of them to the OM...you can certainly see the problem there. The OM is over 20 years...I suspect that if he is given a "no contact" order there's a 50/50 chance he'll obey it. I suspect that in that situtation he'd be told to put in his retirement paperwork immediately and removed from his job. That is...unless somebody above his CO's head decides to make an example of him. If it gets that ugly, I'm sending the W and D7 back to her parents home in FLA.
Personally, I told my wife he was chickens**t for sneaking around and sleeping with another officer's wife and he had no business running an outhouse, much less a unit with several hundred troops.
