Report: U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Moscow

[Jesus Malverde]

An Air Force general in charge of nuclear weapons repeatedly drank too much and behaved like a boor last summer during an official trip to Moscow, where he insulted his Russian hosts and hung out with two suspicious women he met at a hotel bar, according to an investigative report released Thursday.

Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, who was commander of the Air Force's arsenal of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, “acted in a manner that exceeded the limits of accepted standards of good conduct” during a four-day visit to Moscow in July, according to an investigation conducted by the Air Force inspector general.

Carey’s behavior stunned his aides and other colleagues traveling with him for a nuclear security exercise and meetings with Russian officials. They said he started drinking during a stopover in Zurich and kept it up during three days in Moscow, causing a string of gaffes and embarrassments that led Air Force officials to relieve him of his command.

Carey was fired in October from his job as commander of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for maintaining and operating the country’s intercontinental ballistic missiles. At the time, Air Force leaders said he was under investigation for “personal misbehavior” but divulged few details because the case was pending.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/report-us-air-force-general-drank-too-much-fraternized-with-foreign-women-in-moscow/2013/12/19/7f3cdba0-68ed-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html

Story got lost in the christmas holidays...

[Renew Deal]

1. Is this what initiated the rest of the "nuclear cheating" story?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/04/us/navy-cheating-investigation

[Jesus Malverde]

2. Thats how I came across it.

This is symptomatic of corruption and unprofessionalism at the pentagon.

In the old days this clown would have been stripped of rank and likely jailed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Some experts blame the long war

For the corruption we are seeing. Good war fighters who otherwise would have never made rank due to other issues, have, to the point they have command.

[Jesus Malverde]

10. I read somewhere that the pentagon is bloated at the top with generals and their staffs.

A serious imbalance compared with the past.

The Pentagon's Biggest Overrun: Way Too Many Generals

The Costs (too many generals) Are Crippling

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Yes, we have a short force with way too many

Chiefs. But congress approves the list, which makes me wonder how much of that is also on their shoulders?

[TwilightGardener]

13. I don't know, I think you have it backwards. In the old days, I'm guessing

drinking and womanizing were probably commonplace and winked at, especially among the brass. Look at Petraeus--NO ONE reported his trysts among his staff. Even when my husband was in (recently), it was "What goes TDY stays TDY".

[Jesus Malverde]

14. Carousing in a friendly country with weak intelligence services and getting hammered in KGBville

are to be two different things.

He was on official business representing the US army.

I don't think this behavior would have slid in the 1950s or 60's either.

I'm sure if patreaus had been seeing the local kabul cigar seller he would have met the same fate.

[TwilightGardener]

16. Air Force--head of ICBM forces. He was relieved of command because of sheer stupidity

over there, beyond just flirting or having too much to drink. But Petraeus's girlfriend was found with classified files she shouldn't have had access to, presumably from her work on his biography or something. So his affair was more problematic than just sexy-time.

[11 Bravo]

3. Report: U.S. Army corporal drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Saigon. SHIT ... wait

that was ME!

Never mind, as you were.

[FSogol]

4. Sorry, I could only find a picture of one of the suspicious women in Moscow.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. tobacco store lady talking about physics in the wee hours of the morning...

[FSogol]

7. A new classic! n/t

[Ikonoklast]

12. "And vhat are missile launch codes, Dahlink?"

Boy, for being a guy who made it all the way to the rank of general, he certainly was an idiot.

Either that, or they promoted just the guy they wanted for the job.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. Actually....I do remember this story....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024206493

[Jesus Malverde]

8. Thanks I missed it...

OMG I wish I had the FSB video....

[geek tragedy]

15. "always sleep NATO" nt