Disciplinarian: A Cop, a Killing, and the Military Protecting Their Own

An evocative and deeply personal investigation into secrecy, accountability, and inherited trauma in the Canadian Armed Forces

On a warm spring night in 1971, spent drinking away his Korean War memories, Sergeant Martin Thompson took a life on home soil: He decapitated Phillip Birch with his shiny blue Chevy. With his military police privilege, Martin’s crime became a secret buried by both his Armed Forces family and his biological one.

When Kelly S. Thompson — a now-retired fourth-generati...