AF Secretary and Chief of Staff Forced to Resign This Morning

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by Red Flag 1

As a USAF officer from 1973 thru 1990, I paid for all my uniforms. My uniform stipend signing on covered my mess dress, nothing more! I got a one time reimbursment of about $300.00 at the 12 year mark. Our uniforms changed frequently and I paid for every uniform change out of pocket.

The belts, shoes, boots I wore, I bought from clothing sales; as did every officer I served with. If designer duds were worn, it was well above my pay grade, and I had a bonus.


With all due respect, you seem to infer something that is probably not so. At several bases I was stationed at, Plattsburgh AFB to name one, our enlisted below E-4 were on food stamps. Hard to buy designer duds if you are close to starving.


RF 1

Excellent point RF1,When your on food stamps it's hard to believe your thinking about designer clothes........

GB TFS

[Richard]

Originally Posted by afchic

The Air Force has endured a number of embarrassing setbacks over the past year [2007}. In August, for instance, a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown across the country. The pilot and crew were unaware they had nuclear arms aboard.

The error was considered so grave that President Bush was quickly informed.

And we always thought the former-USSR's nuclear surety program had issues.

Richard

Nuclear Missile Officers Reportedly Implicated In Drug Probe
NPR, 9 Jan 2014

Two U.S. Air Force officers with authority to launch nuclear-tipped Minuteman 3 missiles, have reportedly been implicated in an illegal-narcotics investigation.

The Associated Press, citing an unnamed official, says the officers are based at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana and work for the 341st Missile Wing.

The report comes on the same day that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is scheduled to visit a similar base in Nebraska that also houses underground missile silos. The AP reports that "the official says the officers' access to classified information has been suspended and the Air Force is investigating."

It's the latest sign of trouble for the country's aging missile forces, which the AP says, "have been suffering under security lapses, discipline problems and low morale."
In August, the same 341st, which controls about a third of the nation's land-based ICBMs, failed inspection after making "tactical-level errors during one of several exercises," the Air Force's Global Strike Command said in a statement.

Four months previous, 17 officers at the 91st Missile Wing, based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, had their authority to control missiles yanked after an inspection gave crews a grade of "D" on their mastery of Minuteman 3 launch procedures.

And, in October, the Air Force's top missile commander, Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, was relieved of command in what was described at the time as "a loss of trust and confidence ... that stemmed from Carey's "behavior during a temporary duty assignment."

Reuters reports that the general, who led the 20th Air Force headquartered at Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. — the same base that Hagel was due to visit — exhibited "drunken and inappropriate behavior while leading a security delegation to Moscow."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...be?ft=1&f=1003