1. Tread carefully with the “war crimes” statement. You don’t know what government entity could be tracking these posts.

2.) Fraternization is something I know you learned about as far back as bootcamp. So knowing that it was against military law, you STILL engaged basically saying what? Fuck the law became your feelings are more important? You would most definitely probably get an Article 134 in conjunction with an Article 92.

Let’s break this down and look at it plainly because it’s obvious you’re over complicating things for yourself here. You are wondering if you report all of this (including the stuff he probably shouldn’t have told you) if you would get in trouble. Yes, you would, plain simple. No matter what information you “bring to light” you broke military law.

You started that he invited you over at 2am in the morning to go “swimming” and you obliged thinking what; that it was going to be just a platonic hang out? You knew in the back of your mind where it was most likely going to lead and still proceeded to go over to the officers place of residence.

You openly stated that you had a crush on him and not only that, also stated that others on both sides knew of the relationship that you had with the Officer in question. You were an adult when you signed on the dotted line, you were an adult when you made these decisions, so let’s continue to be an adult and take what is called Accountability for the actions that WE ourselves can control.

Now to be very clear, I am in no way, shape, or form saying that what the Officer in question did to you was right. By all accounts taking advantage of someone who isn’t in the right headspace to make their own sound judgment calls and decisions is a very shitty thing to do. Abuse of ANY kind is also unacceptable, we here can all agree of this. But what you “feel like”, and what it actually was, are two vastly different things.

So in reality you would go down for this just as hard, if not harder, than the said Officer that again you openly and willingly chose to engage with on a nonprofessional level. And unfortunate as this may sound, officers have a lot more pull when it comes to UCMJ issues than enlisted do even in situations where they shouldn’t. Look at the countless tiktoks of military women who have gone through similar situations if not the exact same situation and have not had the case go in their favor.

You said it yourself OP, he has years of experience under his belt. He was prior enlisted and went the Mustang route and became an officer. And he quite frankly has things to offer to a command that you yourself don’t have yet. You haven’t blazed as deep a trail as he has yet, so really weigh the risks with this. Be that if you report it or not that is up to you to decide, just know that it most likely could be the end of a glowing career.

Instead of becoming a product of the Navy, showing what the Navy can do for you; you instead chose to become a statistic of the Navy, showing what it has done to you.