This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier who punched a detainee about his body with his fist after the detainee was already shackled. The soldier also faced charges of dereliction of duty by failing to secure the detainee’s cell door and disrespecting a superior officer during the same incident. The sworn statements contained in the proceeding are consistent in that the detainee was removed from his cell and placed in another cell so his cell could be searched. The MP transferring the detainee failed to lock/secure the new cell door and the detainee attempted to exit the cell. A struggle ensued, and the detainee bit the MP while being shackled. It was then, in reaction to being bitten, that the MP struck the detainee with his fist. It was after that that the MP was disrespectful to his superior officer at the scene. The MP received reduction in rank to Private First Class (E3), and extra duty for forty-five (45) days.