Out-of-control missile officers and other nuclear threats
Just won't let that sleeping dog lay, 'eh?
Hagel orders nuclear force review
The order amounted to the most significant expression of high-level Pentagon concern about the nuclear force since 2008, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the Air Force’s top uniformed and civilian officials following a series of mistakes that included an unauthorized flight of nuclear-armed cruise missiles across the country.
During which one was mysteriously "lost."
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is now concerned ‘‘there could be something larger afoot here,’’ according to his chief spokesman."
Like a purge of those who would stand in the way of a new false flag?
Related: Hagel Says Nuke One For the Gipper
Otherwise the size of the force needs to be cut.
92 implicated in missile test cheating
Separately, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said that an investigation into drug possession by officers at several Air Force bases now involves 13 airmen, two more than initially announced. All 92 officers have been decertified and suspended while the scandal is being investigated, meaning other launch officers and staff fill in, performing 10 24-hour shifts per month, instead of the usual eight, Lieutenant General Stephen Wilson, who heads Global Strike Command, said."
An overworked and weary nuclear watchdog?
But the military has more important troubles to deal with:
"It is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year, on top of disclosures in recent months of ethical lapses at all ranks in the military. Unlike an Air Force cheating investigation that has implicated nearly 100 officers responsible for land-based nuclear missiles that stand ready for short-notice launch, those implicated in the Navy investigation have no responsibility for nuclear weapons."
"Report on military academy assaults cites athletes’ culture of disrespect" by Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press, January 10, 2014
WASHINGTON — A culture of bad behavior and disrespect among athletes at US military academies is one part of the continuing problem of sexual assaults at the schools, according to a new Defense Department report that comes following scandals that rocked teams at all three academies last year.
Welcome to AmeriKa!
Defense officials say the culture permeates the academies beyond just the locker room, saying that students often feel they need to put up with sexist and offensive behavior as part of their school life, according to the report obtained by the Associated Press.
It's kind of the culture-at-large thanks to Zionist media and ejewkhazional programming. That's the point we have reached.
The annual report on sexual assaults at the US Military Academy at West Point in New York, the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., identifies sports and club teams as an area where they need to expand sexual assault prevention training for coaches and faculty.
The report is expected to be made public on Friday.
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Athletes and sports teams are coming under increased scrutiny in light of separate harassment and assault episodes at all three schools.
At the Naval Academy, three members of the football team faced accusations in a complicated sexual assault case involving a female student at an off-campus party.
Shouldn't have gone to the party.
Related: Military Sex Abuse Investigation Sequestered
"The deal buoyed Wall Street investors. Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, concluded that as a result overall Pentagon spending will remain relatively the same for the next several years before it begins to grow once again, at about 2.5 percent per year."
Meaning more money to investigate.
Charges were dropped against one team member and may be dropped against another. The third is still scheduled for trial.
At West Point, the men’s rugby team was temporarily disbanded, and more than a dozen seniors were demoted and faced other punishment and restrictions, after e-mails that were derogatory to women came to light.
NSA out 'em?
And there was a similar problem with sports team members at the Air Force Academy circulating a document that disparaged women.
Defense officials said Thursday that students view crude behavior and harassment as an almost accepted experience at the academies and that victims feel peer pressure not to report incidents.
Just rights of passage to make you tough -- militarily speaking.
So the schools are being encouraged to beef up training, particularly among student leaders, to recognize and feel empowered to report or step in when they see unacceptable behavior.
Both the Army and Navy targeted sports team captains, are using field trips to Gettysburg to talk to them about leadership and the need to combat sexual harassment and assault within their ranks.
Lieutenant General Robert Caslen Jr., the superintendent at West Point, said Thursday that the rugby scandal revealed a bad subculture that had existed for years.
‘‘There were people within the organization that became desensitized to the degradation of respect,’’ Caslen said. ‘‘But there were also people in the organization that recognized it as being wrong and elected not to do anything.’’
The challenge, he said, is finding ways to train and encourage cadets to have the moral courage to stand up and report such conduct when they see it.
Why is doing the "right" thing such a challenge in the finest military force in the history of the world, filled with such honorable and noble heroes?
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See: The Pentagon's Next War
They already disarmed!
"Annapolis midshipman will not face rape charges" by Jessica Gresko and Brian Witte | Associated Press, January 11, 2014
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A US Naval Academy midshipman accused in a sexual assault case will not face charges, the school announced Friday, leaving just one of three original defendants in the case remaining.
A Naval Academy spokesman said charges against Midshipman Eric Graham of Eight Mile, Ala., were dismissed following a recommendation from prosecutors.
Prosecutors initially accused three men of sexually assaulting a woman, also a midshipman, in 2012 at an off-campus house in Annapolis. The woman said she didn’t remember being sexually assaulted after a night of heavy drinking but heard from others she had sex with multiple partners at a party.
Booze causes rapes! Time to ban booze!
The men were all football players at the academy at the time of the alleged assault.
The decision to drop charges against Graham was made by the US Naval Academy superintendent, Vice Admiral Michael Miller.
At an earlier stage of the case Miller also decided not to pursue charges against Tra’ves Bush of Johnston, S.C.
Commander John Schofield, spokesman for the Naval Academy, said prosecutors recommended Miller drop the charges against Graham ‘‘citing no reasonable grounds to believe a crime of sexual assault was committed by Midshipman Graham due to the absence of evidence.’’
Another Duke lacrosse frame-up?
A major factor in the recommendation was a recent ruling by a military judge that statements Graham made during an investigation would not be admissible during a military trial scheduled for later this month.
Graham had faced charges of abusive sexual contact and making a false statement during the investigation of the case.
The third midshipman involved in the case, Joshua Tate of Nashville, Tenn., still faces charges. Tate’s court-martial is scheduled to begin Feb. 10.
Maybe.
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"US Naval Academy chief testifies" by Jessica Gresko | Associated Press, January 25, 2014
WASHINGTON — The head of the US Naval Academy rejected suggestions Friday that political pressure influenced him in pursuing sexual assault charges against a football player at the school.
Vice Admiral Michael Miller, the school’s superintendent, dismissed the suggestions of a lawyer for the student while testifying for more than three hours in a military courtroom in Washington. His appearance was part of a hearing ahead of a scheduled trial for the student, Joshua Tate of Nashville.
It was Miller’s decision to move forward with charges against Tate, and the midshipman’s lawyers contend the officer was influenced by a heightened focus on preventing and responding to sexual assault in the military....
Miller, a 39-year veteran of the Navy who has headed the school since 2010, said his decision to move forward with the charges against Tate was made after a careful review and in consultation with others in the military justice system. Responding directly to the question of whether he was pressured by superiors, he answered: “I was not.” He later said he believed he had complete freedom in making his decisions. Miller acknowledged being aware of a focus by the military on sexual assault prevention and response, and said he followed statements made by his superiors on the topic. But he rejected the idea that he pushed forward with the case to set a tone or send a message.
A military judge overseeing the case, Colonel Daniel Daugherty, used a Navy analogy to ask Miller whether going forward with the case was a warning to other students about the seriousness of sexual assault charges, asking whether it was a shot across the bow....
Creative foreplay, 'er, wordplay.
Prosecutors initially accused Tate and two other Naval Academy students of sexually assaulting a female student in 2012 at an off-campus house in Annapolis, Md., where the school is located. The woman said she didn’t remember being sexually assaulted after a night of heavy drinking, but heard from others she had had sex with multiple partners at a party. The men were all football players at the academy at the time.
That's a horrible feeling. I did what? What happened?
On Friday, under questioning by Tate’s lawyer Jason Ehrenberg, Miller acknowledged being aware of a number of high-profile comments about sexual assault in 2013 as the case was ongoing, but he said they didn’t affect his decisions. Miller said he knew that in May, President Obama said those who commit sexual assault in the military should be “prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.” Obama also spoke at the academy’s graduation that month and mentioned the topic of sexual assault.
Miller said he was also aware that in June, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, a member of his academy’s oversight board, sent a letter to the Secretary of the Navy saying she was troubled by inconsistent policies at the service academies for preventing and responding to sexual assaults....
Later that month, Miller decided to move ahead with the military equivalent of a preliminary hearing or grand jury investigation in the case....
Miller said he decided not to move forward with charges against one student because the report concluded “reasonable grounds” did not exist to believe he had committed a sexual assault crime. But he decided to move forward with charges against the two other students....
Even so, the report ultimately recommended that Miller not move forward with charges against the two men because of credibility problems with the woman’s testimony. Miller went against that recommendation....
Yeah, I don't remember is not strong testimony.
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"Army prosecutor quits assault case; General’s sexual misconduct trial is closely watched" by Richard A. Oppel Jr. | New York Times, February 15, 2014
The military’s most closely watched sexual misconduct prosecution has been thrown into turmoil after the Army’s lead prosecutor abruptly left the case this week, less than a month before the scheduled court-martial of Brigadier General Jeffrey A. Sinclair on sexual assault charges.
Related: General’s court-martial delayed again
He's a sinner!
The departure of the prosecutor, Lieutenant Colonel William Helixon, came just days after defense lawyers said in interviews that the colonel told them that he had come to think that a jury would not believe the testimony of the prosecution’s chief witness, a 34-year-old captain.
Sinclair, 51, who was recalled in 2012 from his job as deputy commander of US forces in southern Afghanistan, has acknowledged a three-year affair with the witness, a military intelligence officer who had worked for him. But he has denied her accusation that on two occasions he forced her into oral sex and threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone about the affair.
Sinclair faces additional counts of misconduct based on the testimony of other prosecution witnesses, including accusations that he pressured a female subordinate to send him naked photographs of herself, in a case that has become a lightning rod for critics who say the military has played down sexual assault in the ranks.
Major Crystal Boring, a spokeswoman at Fort Bragg, N.C., said in an e-mail that Helixon voluntarily left the case for “personal reasons.” The general was a commander with the 82d Airborne Division before being placed on limited duty because of the criminal investigation.
For several days, the Times had been putting questions to Army officials at Fort Bragg and the Pentagon about what defense lawyers described as Helixon’s misgivings about the case and his efforts to persuade superiors to drop the most serious charges.
According to the defense, Helixon also disclosed that he believed the captain had not told the truth during testimony at a pretrial hearing last month.
It was impossible to confirm the defense team’s description of conversations with Helixon, who did not respond this week to e-mails or to messages left at his office and on his wife’s cellphone. Army officials at the Pentagon declined to comment.
Isn't that harassment?
Boring declined to discuss other aspects of the case or whether the military would seek to delay the court-martial, scheduled for early March. She said prosecutors would “continue to pursue resolution of these charges,” and asserted that personnel changes were common in lengthy cases.
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UPDATE: 1st prosecutor in Army sex case wanted it dropped
Looks like they are all unfit for duty, but I suppose that's what happens when standards are relaxed and command looks the other way because there is a war on. Still the finest and best fighting force the world has ever seen, the liberator of women worldwide!
And the poor wives. I guess I can see why women are turning down the combat jobs.
Heck, they can't even get them to be firefighters.
Related:
"The unusually large number of recipients of the medal for conspicuous gallantry was the result of congressionally mandated review of war records to determine if any Jewish-American or Hispanic-American soldiers had been denied the Medal of Honor because of prejudice....
The law required that the record of each Jewish American and Hispanic American veteran who got a Service Cross in or after World War II be reviewed for possible upgrade to Medal of Honor."
I guess sexism really isn't an immediate concern.
