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Wed Jan 15, 2014, 05:53 PM Jan 2014

Air Force suspends 34 nuclear missile officers for cheating on exams

The US military has suspended 34 officers in charge of launching nuclear missiles for cheating on a proficiency test, Air Force leaders said Wednesday.

The scandal at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana marked the latest in a series of damaging revelations dogging the country’s nuclear force, including a separate probe into illegal drugs that came to light last week.

“There was cheating that took place with respect to this particular test,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told a news conference.

“Some officers did it. Others apparently knew about it, and it appears that they did nothing, or at least not enough, to stop it or to report it.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/15/air-force-suspends-34-nuclear-missile-officers-for-cheating-on-exams/

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