Is this the excuse they are going to use for the nuking of Chicago?
"Nuclear launch officers tied to drug case" by Robert Burns | AP National Security Writer, January 10, 2014
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. — Hoping to boost sagging morale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a rare visit Thursday to an Air Force nuclear missile base for the men and women who operate and safeguard the nation’s Minuteman 3 missiles. But his attempt to cheer the troops was tempered by news that launch officers at another base had been implicated in an illegal-narcotics investigation.
Two officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana are being investigated for allegations of drug possession, said a service spokesman in Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Brett Ashworth. Both of those being investigated are ICBM launch officers with responsibility for operating intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The launch officers’ access to classified information has been suspended, and they have been prohibited from serving on missile launch control duty while the Air Force is investigating, another defense official said. That official provided no further details and spoke only on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly by name.
At the Wyoming nuclear missile base, Hagel addressed officers and airmen after a series of security lapses and discipline problems that were revealed in news stories in 2013. Officials have said service members are increasingly tired of working in what can seem like oblivion.
I know the feeling.
‘‘You are doing something of great importance to the world,’’ Hagel told the group.
Thanks, Chuck, although launching those missiles would not be good.
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Related: North Dakota Nukes on the Loose?
Not Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie
I'm not, not after the August scare and now the warning that the Syrian terrorists may be coming (despite the NSA having broken all of Al-CIA-Duh's codes).
What I can't figure out is if Obummer is removing the rot from the national security system that will facilitate a false flag, or whether those are being removed are part of the faction that would try to stop one. Time will tell.
"Inquiry finds general misbehaved in Russia; Nuclear missile commander was fired in October" Associated Press, December 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Air Force general who was fired from command of US land-based nuclear missile forces had engaged in ‘‘inappropriate behavior’’ while on official business in Russia last summer, including heavy drinking, rudeness to his hosts, and associating with ‘‘suspect’’ women, according to an investigative report.
The events that led to the dismissal took place while Major General Michael Carey was in Russia in July as head of a US government delegation to a nuclear security training exercise.
At the time, he was commander of the 20th Air Force, responsible for all 450 of the Air Force’s Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles stationed in five US states.
When Carey was relieved of command in October, the Air Force said he had engaged in unspecified misbehavior while on a business trip, but it did not say the episode was in Russia, nor did it indicate the specific allegations against him.
Carey’s firing was one of several setbacks for the nuclear force this year.
The Associated Press has documented serious security lapses and complaints of low morale and ‘‘rot’’ within the force, as well as an independent assessment of ‘‘burnout’’ among a sampling of nuclear missile launch officers and security forces.
After the Russia trip, a member of the delegation lodged a complaint about Carey’s behavior.
That person, described as a female staff member in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, asserted to investigators that on the delegation’s first night in Moscow, July 15, Carey was drinking and speaking loudly in a hotel lounge about how he is ‘‘saving the world’’ and that his forces suffer from low morale.
Why am I getting the feeling these guys were standing in the way of a false flag that this government desperately needs?
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Related: Air Force to scrutinize nuclear leader candidates
Until they find the right one that will allow a false flag to go through.
UPDATE:
"US nuclear missile command reels from another scandal" by Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press, January 16, 2014
WASHINGTON — In a stunning setback for a nuclear missile force already beset by missteps and leadership lapses, the Air Force disclosed on Wednesday that 34 officers entrusted with the world’s deadliest weapons have been removed from launch duty for allegedly cheating — or tolerating cheating by others — on routine proficiency tests.
The cheating scandal is the latest in a series of Air Force nuclear stumbles documented in recent months by the Associated Press, including deliberate violations of safety rules, failures of inspections, breakdowns in training, and evidence that the men and women who operate the missiles from underground command posts are suffering burnout.
In October the commander of the missile force was fired for engaging in embarrassing behavior, including drunkenness, while leading a US delegation to a nuclear exercise in Russia.
A ‘‘profoundly disappointed’’ Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told a hurriedly arranged Pentagon news conference that the alleged cheating at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., was discovered during a previously announced investigation of drug possession by 11 officers at several Air Force bases, including two who also are in the nuclear force and suspected of participating in the cheating ring.
‘‘This is absolutely unacceptable behavior,’’ James said of the cheating, which General Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, said could be the biggest such scandal in the history of the missile force.
A spokesman for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Pentagon chief, who just last week visited a nuclear missile base and praised the force for its professionalism, was ‘‘deeply troubled’’ to learn of the cheating allegations.
The spokesman, Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, said Hagel insisted he be kept apprised of the investigation’s progress.
Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, urged Air Force leaders to take swift and decisive action to ensure the integrity of the nuclear mission.
‘‘There simply is no room in our Air Force, and certainly in our nuclear enterprise, for this type of misconduct,’’ said Udall, the chairman of the Senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee.
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So WHEN does Chicago go up in a nuclear cloud because that MISSING NUKE is never referred to?
