A Marine Corps intelligence warrant officer previously charged with assaulting his spouse and a child in Okinawa has been sentenced to two years in confinement after pleading guilty to domestic violence and child endangerment.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Benjamin G. Dux was sentenced Aug. 5 following a general court-martial before a military judge. Despite the confinement sentence, Dux received no dismissal from the Marine Corps, reduction in rank, forfeiture of pay or fine — limitations that were included in his plea agreement.
Dux pleaded guilty to two domestic violence offenses under Article 128b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including strangulation and a separate violent offense. He also pleaded guilty to child endangerment under Article 119b. The military judge found him guilty of all three offenses.
The convictions stem from allegations previously reported by The Salty Soldier involving Dux’s spouse and a child while he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan.
The original charge sheet accused Dux of strangling his spouse with his hands during a Jan. 18, 2026, incident. Prosecutors also accused him of violently assaulting a child under the age of 16, allegedly causing bald patches on the child’s scalp and one or more fractured bones.
A separate child-endangerment charge accused Dux of throwing burning wood onto a tent occupied by the child.
Dux had also originally been accused of threatening to strike his spouse with a coffee cup during an October 2025 incident. That allegation does not appear among the three offenses listed in the final findings.
The military judge sentenced Dux to 24 months for each of the two domestic violence offenses and six months for child endangerment. All three sentences will be served at the same time, leaving Dux with a total confinement sentence of 24 months.
Dux was also credited with 198 days he had already spent in pretrial confinement, meaning he had served more than six months toward the sentence by the time it was handed down.
The lack of a dismissal, reduction in rank or other financial punishment was not simply a decision made by the military judge at sentencing. Those limits were written into Dux’s plea agreement.
According to the statement of trial results, the agreement provided that no dismissal could be adjudged and prohibited any reduction in rank, forfeitures or fine. It also capped Dux’s total confinement at 24 months.
The available court record does not explain why prosecutors agreed to those terms.
Dux’s conviction marks a sharp turn in a Marine Corps career that included combat service in Afghanistan and a transition from the enlisted ranks into the warrant officer community.
Before becoming a warrant officer, Dux served as a counterintelligence and human intelligence specialist. As a staff sergeant, he received the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat “C” device for meritorious service under combat conditions while supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.
Dux was later selected through the Marine Corps’ Fiscal Year 2023 Enlisted-to-Warrant Officer program. The selection announcement, released in August 2022, placed him among Marines chosen to transition from the enlisted ranks into the warrant officer corps.
Marine Corps imagery from October 2022 also shows then-Staff Sgt. Dux participating alongside his spouse in a Chemical Biological Incident Response Force spouse appreciation event at the Downey Rescue Training Facility in Maryland, just months before his scheduled warrant officer appointment.
By the time of the Okinawa case, Dux had risen to chief warrant officer 2 and was assigned to 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group.
The statement of trial results identifies the case as involving domestic violence and indicates that the convictions trigger a federal prohibition on firearm possession. The form indicates that sex-offender registration and DNA collection are not required under the provisions addressed in the document.
The case is not yet fully closed, and the available court records show no appeals have been filed.
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