A "spec 4" -- You gotta be kiddin'

I chanced to get a look at the fellow on trial at Ft. Hood (I think) for allegedly mis-treating prisoners in Iraq. I also chanced to glance at his rank: specialist 4th class! Spec 4!
Someone has to be kidding!
A specialist 4th class in that big of trouble? How could a spec 4 possibly have the responsibility, authority or whatever it took to do the things of which he is accused!
Someone has to be kidding!
And, a reservist at that?
Someone has to be kidding!
Then I see they have a prisoner testifying--by tape!
You have to be kidding?
With all the transportation available and as fast as you can move people around, why can't the prisoner who the Spec 4 supposedly abused be in the court room?
You have to be kidding?
Is it show or what?
It has to be. It can be nothing else. It cannot be real!
Oh, wait, I hear a second lieutenant is waiting in the wings for the next trial.
His will, not doubt, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the military has gone after all the bad guys in the prison scandal.
This has to be a situation comedy, right?
I mean this cannot be for real!