While I dont understand the nuances of the UCMJ, I understand its far simpler than the byzantine laws that regular people have to follow.

With one core tenet being you cant maliciously sabotage, steal or break uncle sams property. If you include soldiers as part of that along with guns, tanks, fuel depots and the rest of it, trying to maim or poison soldiers is the act of an enemy, not an ally or commander.

Which incidentally makes the tranny thing a crime also - mutilating and wounding soldiers permanently cripples them and makes them hugely subject to disease from the untreated open wounds they have inflicted on themselves.