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lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 02:16 AM Nov 2014

Holy crap.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/air-force-commanders-fired_n_6097478.html

Two Air Force Commanders Fired, Another Disciplined


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force on Monday fired two more nuclear commanders and disciplined a third, fresh evidence of leadership lapses in a nuclear missile corps that has suffered a rash of recent setbacks, including the firing last year of its top commander.

The most senior officer to be relieved Monday was Col. Carl Jones, the No. 2 commander of the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, in charge of 150 of the Air Force's 450 Minuteman 3 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. He was dismissed "for a loss of trust and confidence in his leadership abilities," and has been reassigned as a special assistant to the wing commander.

The actions Monday were confirmed to The Associated Press in response to an AP inquiry about an internal Air Force investigation of two commanders at the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, which also is responsible for 150 Minuteman 3 missiles.

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Oh well, I probably wasn't going to sleep anyway.
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Holy crap. (Original Post) lonestarnot Nov 2014 OP
Good. Clean house. And while they're at it.... Hekate Nov 2014 #1
Hmmmm 3 in US and two heads are both relieved of duty at 1 time. Freaks me out. lonestarnot Nov 2014 #2
Seven Days in May? villager Nov 2014 #3
......... trusty elf Nov 2014 #4

Hekate

(90,644 posts)
1. Good. Clean house. And while they're at it....
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 02:19 AM
Nov 2014

....could they please get rid of the anti-Semites and radical fundies at the Air Force Academy?

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
2. Hmmmm 3 in US and two heads are both relieved of duty at 1 time. Freaks me out.
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 02:22 AM
Nov 2014

Something happening here that doesn't hit the print.

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