Section 48-3024 - Misbehavior before a hostile forceAny person subject to this code shall be punished at the direction of a commanding officer if such person, before or in the presence of the enemy:
(b) shamefully abandons, surrenders or delivers up any command, unit, place or military property that such person has a duty to defend;(c) through disobedience, neglect or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of any such command, unit, place or military property;(d) casts away such person's arms or ammunition;(e) is guilty of cowardly conduct;(f) quits such person's place of duty to plunder or pillage;(g) causes false alarms in any command, unit or place under control of the armed forces of the United States or the state military forces;(h) willfully fails to do such person's utmost to encounter, engage, capture or destroy any hostile force, combatants, vessels, aircraft or any other thing that the person has a duty to encounter, engage, capture or destroy; or(i) does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies, to the state or to any other state when engaged in battle.Amended by L. 2024, ch. 78,§ 90, eff. 7/1/2024.L. 1972, ch. 203, § 48-3024; July 1.