Eroding discipline ....

The US military has a problem.

What do you see when you look at the above photo?

I see an entire formation conforming to standards and one person with a child old enough to realize whats going on that deems themselves "different".

I'm guessing because I wasn't there, but some adult was with the child and gave her the ok.  The soldier being hugged could have signalled to the child to go back.

I'm also willing to be that there were other family members in as big a hurry to welcome back their loved ones as this child was.

Correction.  Its an adult that's hugging the soldier...her mom
via DVIDS...

This mom just couldn't wait to hug her daughter...
Sgt. Ana Karen Cordoba is welcomed home by her mother as the nearly 140 members of the New Jersey National Guard's 508th Military Police Company were reunited with their families at the Lawrenceville Armory on June 6 to conclude a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. The 508th provided security, force protection and advised the Afghan national police force in the Kabul region during their deployment. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen 108th Wing

But instead we have this.  Worse, we have it being promoted on the US Army and National Guard websites.  The US military is lost when it comes to social media, how it handles basic discipline and what it will permit.  Either you're a dick because you enforce the smallest infraction or you're playing favorites/engaging in situational ethics because you don't...and that makes you a hypocrite.

Its better to be a dick.