AK - National Guard documents detail chronic misconduct among recruiting leaders

[Blue_In_AK]

Governor Sean Parnell (also known as commander in chief of the Alaska Guard) was SO hoping these documents wouldn't become public until after the election and has done everything he can to cover it up. He has known about this for four years. This, among so many other things, should hopefully doom his re-election.

http://www.adn.com/article/20141018/national-guard-documents-detail-chronic-misconduct-among-recruiting-leaders

The Alaska Army National Guard’s Recruiting and Retention Battalion, a unit with access to high school students around the state and a budget to attend or sponsor popular outdoor events, has been, for years, a center of repeated sexual misconduct among its officers, according to investigative files.

The files describe a unit in which officers prowled the lists of new recruits for sex, routinely cheated on their wives, drank to excess, went to strip clubs, chiseled the government with their official credit cards and made a habit of making leering and demeaning comments about women, including their fellow soldiers. The files were prepared between 2010 and 2014 in a largely failed effort by a few officers to mark the leaders of the battalion with the stain of an other-than-honorable discharge.

Officers in the battalion had sex with other soldiers and civilians on the chairs and desks of their recruiting offices, in their government cars, in the woods near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and in the RVs they brought to official events, the reports say.

The files described bullying of civilians by guard officers. Four women said that when they attended Dimond High School in Anchorage, they resisted a guard recruiter who tried to give them alcohol. One former student described what sounded like an attempt by the officer to groom her for sex. She said she had to jump from the recruiter’s car when he tried to take her home, calling her father for help from a stranger’s phone.

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[J_J_]

1. bad enough recruiters were at the high school

but giving them alcohol....and the list just gets worse.

Sullivan needs to go down with this ship too.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Oh, you bet

People forget that he was AG when a lot of this was going on. I really despise that guy. He can't have been unaware of this.

[PearliePoo2]

3. Is there any way to tie Palin's filthy paws to this too?

I'd love for her to get nailed someday on all the crap she's done.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Probably,

but our immediate concern is to get Sean Parnell out of the governor's office so a full and free investigation can be done.

[PearliePoo2]

5. I read the article and the comments too. It's hard to believe the sleaze!

Things aren't looking so good for Parnell judging by the sentiment of what's being posted!
I hope this turns the tide against the scumbag, big-time!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. You and me both.

I can't stand that guy. At least with Sarah you could kind of make jokes about her, or even kind of like her when she was governor before she went crazy -- but Sean has absolutely no redeeming quality. I could go on for days about the things I can't stand about him -- he's a Dominionist, a Club-for-Growther, an honorary member of ALEC, he just rammed through a bill last session that basically hands Alaska's oil to the Big 3 for peanuts. He's beyond awful. He's so awful you can't even joke about him.

I really wish he got more national attention. He's so bad that the Independent and Democratic candidates for governor joined forces just so they wouldn't split the vote. The Democrats are supporting Walker/Mallott, which is basically a Republican/Democrat ticket. That's how bad Sean Parnell is.