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They are, they just can be dealt with as a Art 15, which isn’t a misdeameanor or a felony, unlike the civilian world.

No, that's my own personal assumption without knowing any of the intricate details of the case. Article 120 has had around a 70% acquittal rate in the USAF. Why? Because B.S. cases are sent to court martials, regardless of the truthfulness of the allegation. A bizarre thing to write is saying the guy cheated in SOS, so therefore being charged with sexual assault and maltreatment doesn't raise an eyebrow. An O-6 fired for fucking an E-4? Sure. Does said O-6 need to be court martialed over it? Debatable. I've seen people beat their spouse and get DUI's (actual crimes in the civilian world) and get an Art 15.

I'm guessing that would generate a referral training report at the very least - was he already designated as golden/protected that young or are we just that skosh on options for AMC wing commanders? Tuck is starting to run out of Wing/CC’s to fire.

Here's my guess: Had a sexual relationship with said SrA. Someone turned them in, she got called into OSI to be interviewed. She either admitted to it, but freaked out and lied saying he assaulted her, or she lied and said it never happened, was confronted with evidence, then lied and said he assaulted her. She then tells a story about how "powerless" she felt for having said sexual relationship and that he harassed her (Maltreatment). They throw on the fraternization for banging (she admitted that something sexual happened either with or without consent) and the standard conduct unbecoming. Predictions: He gets acquitted of the sexual assault, gets acquitted of one of the maltreatment charges. Found guilty of the other maltreatment (saying sexual comments), conduct unbecoming, and fraternization. Sentence: Dismissal, maybe some forfeiture of pay. No confinement. She gets an assignment of wherever she wants to go via an expedited transfer, no punishment for possibly lying if she did. She'll also rate a VA disability for Military Sexual Trauma, even if he's acquitted of the charges. He joins a long line of us who were falsely accused of sexual assault, acquitted of it, however lost our careers anyway. Senator Gillibrand and that annoying mouthpiece of Protect Our Defenders, Don Christensen, will claim it as a victory towards sexual assault reform and the fact he's a Colonel and former Wing Commander will given them strength to influence to have the UCMJ changed and have more authority stripped from the commanders and make sure the accused has even less rights and due process. Christensen is the former Air Force prosecutor who tried then Lt Col Wilkerson for sexual assault, which ultimately cost the 3 AF/CC his career, Lt Gen Franklin.

Mexico is our third largest trading partner ($550B/two-way) in 2017, I wouldn't consider them an enemy. Australia has been subject to trade imbalances for years with other nations and yet has had a stable, and growing, economy that hasn't posted a recession since 1991. The EU already told Trump and to fuck off and they're filing a complaint for punitive measures with the WTO. What's not going to start negations is starting trade wars with countries that are supposed to be your allies. China has already said they aren't looking to start a trade war, but they aren't going to back down from one either.

So, imposing tariffs on our our allies is good or bad? Are we concerned with Canadians proliferating U.S. IP like China 😂

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kinzinger

He's a great dude, and deserves to be a Lt Col, however that would involve some people to have an ethical and moral backbone to do the right thing. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen.

Well, if his daddy didn’t bail him out decades ago with his shitty investing, he probably wouldn’t be rich and elite. In other news... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/us/politics/trump-sessions-obstruction.html

You’re right, however there isn’t enough firepower in the USAF, nor the DoD, to take on a Senator on any committee/subcommittee, let alone the Senate Armed Forces Committee. And anyone that has enough rank/position to say something, isn’t because doing so would be possibly risky to their own careers.

Nope, he was just the Projo for the base’s airshow. Unfortunately he’s an optimist.

There’s a guy at a AMC base who was an AOC at USAFA, made Lt Col BTZ, then PCS’d to said AMC to command a flying squadron. He unfortunately upset a Cadet at USAFA who’s father was friends with someone on the Senate Armed Forces Committee, who subsequently didn’t not approve of his name on the promotion list for two years. Since that happened, his line number then expired and he wasn’t promoted. He also was told that since he was no longer a Lt Col(s), he couldn’t command a flying squadron. He then became the AMXS/CC and he’s working at somehow getting his line number back.

It’s probably going to work like when AETC absorbed 19 AF for 1-2 years...then reactivated 19 AF. They probably got tired of the MAJCOM being the waiver authority for everything everything flying related.

They were probably fucking. When's their court martial?

Sounds like an AMC HPO Wg/CC!

This. How long until MX Officers wine about lack of command billets...like they did before?

So who’s blacklisting him at the majors, since he’ll be applying in less than three years?

Kenn Starr was appointed to investigate the Clinton’s in August of 1994 and didn’t release his report until September of 1998. I’d say Mueller has some time. Zero evidence? Then why was Manafort and Gates indicted? https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/387837-judge-rejects-manafort-motion-to-dismiss-russia-probe-charges%3famp

Any Congressman who even mildly suggests revoking military pensions would be committing political suicide for their career. Then the focus would turn to their pensions and it would become a mess.

Nav's have been part of the C-130 community longer than the C-130J has been around. I'm sure he'll "figure it out" how to run a Wing that has an aircraft that got rid of his crew position, which really doesn't have anything to do with running a Wing since he's there for complete leadership.

Without seeing the charge sheet, and from what was reported, he sounds fucked. The rape/sex assault charges will walk him into a court martial, however military justice uses Lesser Included Offenses (LIO’s) a lot. That’s where another charge, that’s not originally charged, is found to be considered by the panel or judge, but cause the terminal element of the LIO is in the original charge. Example: Government charged him with rape (Art 120). A terminal element of rape is to use force or fear. Panel or jury find he wasn’t guilty of rape because of lack of force or fear, but that he did physically assault her, so now they find him guilty of Assault Consummated by a Battery (Art 128). His odds of going to prison are extremely high due to the charged crimes. And they’ll throw in all the catch all’s like Conduct Unbecoming (Art 133). If he’s sentenced to a dismissal, that’s the officer version of a diahonorable discharge. If he isn’t sentenced to a dismissal, he’ll go to a Board if Inquiry a few months later and the Government will use his court martial conviction, as trivial as Conduct Unbecoming, against him to have him separated. If he’s over 20-years, he’ll only be allowed to retire if SECAF approves it, and it probably wouldn’t be at the O-6 rank. The military justice system has ruined a lot of lives because of the politics. And if you don’t think this kind of stuff will never happen to you, all it takes is one false allegation.

Down one Raptor pilot. http://gazette.com/peterson-air-force-base-colonel-faces-court-martial-in-alleged-sex-assaults/article/1625695

Huh? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/us/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-senate.html

He sure did Mr. Lose your wing in a FEB by flying into a severe thunderstorm former C-17 guy.