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7 hours ago, Homestar said:
So no matter what really happened she lied? What a bizarre thing to write. Really no matter what happened if an O-6 is screwing an E-3 the O-6 deserves to be fired whether there is consent or not.
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.
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1 hour ago, magnetfreezer said:2 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:Considering the guy was kicked out of SOS for cheating...among many other shady things as a CGO...color me not surprised at the charges.
He just finally got caught.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.
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7 hours ago, Right Seat Driver said:
Update on the firing of the 375 AMW/CC.
Fired Air Force wing commander charged with sexual assault, cruelty.
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.
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47 minutes ago, Lawman said:
Mexico is an Ally now?
Funny I don’t remember allies actively running government programs of moving migratory people across their country in a “not in my back yard” fashion so they can then stand at the US border (or sneak in via smuggling routes) and demand that country absorb the cost of them as refugees/migrants.
And Canada did how much fuckery in its whole canceling the F-35 program (long before any trade tariffs). But hey screw it, we need to be extra nice to them and take a loss in trade because they send some dudes to help us staff NORTHCOM while their actual military couldn’t protect a parking lot.
NAFTA was a shitty deal. All these tariffs are is a demand to get parties back to the table to renegotiate. Do that and they go away. It’s not some conspiracy to collapse the economy or random decision. But as long as the media talking heads pretend this is just Trump firing on random cyclinders, that’s not helping matters in getting those negotiations to actually happen.
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.
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1 hour ago, brickhistory said:
Ah, yes. Ben Sasse.
Voted for him when I lived in Omaha based on his campaign promises and his reputation.
Then, of course, he decides that borders are optional, among other not conservative stances.
I can't vote against him now due to having moved, but I will contribute to his next primary opponent. NE doesn't appear enamored of him either.
Jeff Flake is macho compared to ol' Ben, a neverTrump'er of the 1st magnitude. But Ben does make a mean Bill Maher show guest...
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://apple.news/AXCPYAkeyRH-4pfCOOc7ODA
Quote“This is dumb. Europe, Canada, and Mexico are not China, and you don’t treat allies the same way you treat opponents,” said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). “We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression. ‘Make America Great Again’ shouldn’t mean ‘Make America 1929 Again.”
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53 minutes ago, dream big said:
Congress f&&king over the Air Force? Say it isn’t so.
Edit: Don’t we have a guardsman on here who also happens to work at the capitol building? Man, what a great way to right a wrong and build an immense amount of respect from his fellow Airmen. Just saying!
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2 hours ago, celtic020 said:
I know him personally. He was an IP when I inprocessed my first flying assignment 11 years ago....phenomenal dude. I knew something wasn't right when I saw him at a conference a couple years ago and he was still a Major. So F'ing brutal.
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.
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25 minutes ago, drewpey said:
Trump literally shits in a golden toilet. I get there are some "elites" on the (D) side, but I seriously can't help but chuckle every time someone wants to talk about him being a man of the people fighting against the rich and entitled.
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
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1 hour ago, Standby said:
That’s criminal. I am not one to fall on my sword often, but this instance would be totally worth it to expose the fvckery going on.
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.
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1 hour ago, pcola said:
Hopefully you meant to say he’s working on getting his seniority number (at the Majors) and not his AF line number. Because F that noise.Nope, he was just the Projo for the base’s airshow. Unfortunately he’s an optimist.
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1 hour ago, celtic020 said:
This one I honestly can't believe. Screened and assigned to SQ/CC and passed over for O-5?
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.
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57 minutes ago, Chuck17 said:
We are about to find out. That was a table slap from the last Corona. 18AF will be a shell (ADCON responsibilities only) in a matter of weeks, 3-Star goes back to the MAJCOM Vice...
No clue exactly how ops will fit into the OT&E world of the MAJCOM but they’ll make it work, it’s been done before.
Big changes coming in lots of places.
Chuck
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.
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15 hours ago, HarleyQuinn said:
Are commanders falling like a $10 Russian juicee in heels or what? Damn I miss Korea and that lady who would park her food cart at the front gate of Osan right around the soju walk of fame curfew time.
They were probably fucking. When's their court martial?
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2 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
Until you wind up at a base that some jackass tells the Wg/CC that he doesn’t own any ABUs (fill in the uniform) because he wasn’t paid to get them. Then everyone on base gets to show up for an ABU inspection. Fun times.Sounds like an AMC HPO Wg/CC!
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2 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
What is old is new again. It has been done before.
This. How long until MX Officers wine about lack of command billets...like they did before?
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3 hours ago, dream big said:
No, he was a prick who threatens his Squadron Commanders and DOs, threatened to cancel flying lines if people didn’t show up to his gay morale parade, probably sets a record for kicking back OPRs and award packages, cares more about looking green on mobility slides than actual mission effectiveness. He absolutely created a toxic environment at Dyess that anyone here can vouche for. He completely deserves to be fired and I for one am happy and hopeful that senior leadership is watching and trying to make positive change. Maybe other commanders will now be put on notice and realize that if they don’t effectively lead and foster morale they’ll be canned as well.
So who’s blacklisting him at the majors, since he’ll be applying in less than three years?
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3 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
The above statement is exactly how I feel about the Russian collusion narrative. A year of hardcore investigation by a special council filled with partisan democrats has produced zero evidence the Trump campaign colluded or conspired with Russia to win the election. How much longer should the nation endure the Mueller probe?
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?
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10 hours ago, MooseAg03 said:
With $21 Trillion in debt and interest rates held artificially low for such a long time, I’m not sure I’d bank on any pension backed by the government as fool proof.
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.
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11 minutes ago, Herkasaurus said:
And now the vice wing commander is in charge of the J model Airlift Wing...he’s a nav.
I like Rooster, he’s an old school dude who doesn’t put up with shit. But this is the 2nd time big blue has put a nav in command of a J model “Airlift Wing”. The other being the schoolhouse, which is why I use the term “Airlift Wing” loosely.
I don’t understand putting a guy in command who can’t fly the only MWS assigned to him. (Yes there are ways he can fly on a J, but that’s not the intent.)
A WSO in charge of the Bomber Wing or a Fighter Wing with Strike Eagles, sure. I get that. But this is just silly, especially to have done it multiple times now.
I assume I’m missing something.
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.
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4 hours ago, SocialD said:
This is my shocked face at the shoot, then aim mentality the military always takes in these cases. Don't worry, if it turns out to be unfounded, they'll be sure to print the retraction on the bottom right corner of the back page of the AF times...and his career will still be ruined.
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.
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4 hours ago, brickhistory said:
It was a bad deal to start with.
Not to mention the second most egregious example by the previous Administration to do an end run around the founding contract of our system of government - the US Constitution.
Any formal agreement (treaty) between the US and any other country that binds us to any action or behavior isn't valid until it is presented to and ratified by the Senate. This J-POS as well as the even worse Paris Climate Accord were done via Obama's infamous "phone and pen." And just as easily undone (except for DACA for some reason espoused by one lower court judge) by the next Administration.
If it were such a good deal for the US, then why didn't Obama present it to the Senate? Because he knew he couldn't get it through, so he simply ignored them. And they let him. They voluntarily abrogated one of their basic responsibilities. Which disgusts me even more than the J-POS did.
Huh?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/us/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-senate.html
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56 minutes ago, Day Man said:
He sure did Mr. Lose your wing in a FEB by flying into a severe thunderstorm former C-17 guy.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
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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.