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Alaska · Through Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)

AS 26.05.865: Misbehavior of sentinel.

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  1. Title 26. Military Affairs, Veterans, Disasters, and Aerospace.
  2. Chapter 05. Code of Military Justice.
  3. Article 2. Military Justice.

A sentinel or lookout who (1) as a result of the use of any alcoholic beverage or drug, is unable to properly perform the sentinel's or lookout's duties, (2) is found sleeping on the sentinel's or lookout's post, (3) leaves the sentinel's or lookout's post before being regularly relieved, or (4) loiters or wrongfully sits down on post may be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war or emergency as described in AS 26.05.070, by confinement of not more than 10 years, by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge, and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, but if the offense is committed at any other time, by up to one year of confinement, by separation with characterization up to dishonorable discharge, and by such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.

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