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U.S. Air Force considers training changes after sex scandal
Reuters ^ | Sat Jul 7, 2012 9:37am EDT | Jim Forsyth

Posted on 07/07/2012 2:43:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The U.S. Air Force is considering whether to revamp basic training for recruits, including separate training for women and men, following the worst U.S. military sex scandal in 16 years involving a dozen male drill sergeants accused of abusing women.

Twelve male military training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, the home of all Air Force basic training, are under investigation for seeking sexual favors from female Air Force trainees.

Six instructors have been referred to court martial on charges ranging from attempting to have a sexual relationship with a recruit to adultery and aggravated sexual assault.

The first of the court martials begins on July 16, when Sergeant Luis Walker will face several counts of aggravated sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, having an unprofessional relationship, adultery and obstructing justice. He could face life in prison.

The investigation so far has identified 31 victims of abuse by the trainers, according to General Edward Rice, the commander of Air Force training. "We are leaving no stone unturned," he said last week.

In the Air Force, women and men serve together in units, known as training flights, and they live either in separate barracks or across the hall from male trainees, with separate bathing and sleeping areas.

About 10 percent of the drill sergeants—known in the Air Force as Military Training Instructors (MITs)—are female and they command both men and women. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforce; basictraining; clintonlegacy; doublestandard; itsjustsex; military; sex; sexscandal
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To: X-spurt
I mean what the heck is a DRILL Sargent supposed to do?

I call BS on your story. It is spelled 'Sergeant', and the USAF calls them TI's. Anyone who has been through BMT knows this.

So, were you ever even at Lackland or did someone else sell you this pile of BS?

21 posted on 07/07/2012 4:29:13 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (I made a prank call...pretended I was a mime.)
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To: elkfersupper

get rid of the chicks......they were just a pain-in-the-a$$ anyway.

Sweet! I’m sure they thought just as much of you!


22 posted on 07/07/2012 4:52:43 PM PDT by conservativesister
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To: Venturer
The premise used to be that if you put men and women together sooner or late they would have sex.

Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster ... A man and a woman alone together will hardly think of saying their prayers. The wisdom of our ancestors, but oh, we know so much better.

23 posted on 07/07/2012 5:08:45 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Putting young men & women together in a high stress environment and being surprised when sex occurs is like mixing dynamite & napalm and declaring that “sparks are against our policy.”


24 posted on 07/07/2012 5:13:53 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

So just why would I give a damn what some halfwit wannabe thinks about anything?

Son, I was at Lackland before you wuz even a twinkle in yu Dad’s eye. Now run along and try to impress some crossdresser with your fakeo cage fighter BS.


25 posted on 07/07/2012 5:38:50 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: Olog-hai
The U.S. Air Force is considering whether to revamp basic training for recruits, including separate training for women and men

And 100% of the lesbians in the polling sample thought this was a great idea.


26 posted on 07/07/2012 5:46:44 PM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
I can’t wait for the first scandal involving Fag sargents and pink young boy recruits!

With the pro-homo administration we now have, the young recruits would be charged with a hate crime for referring to the old queens as "fags", and then charged with discrimination for admitting they would have sex with females but not males.


27 posted on 07/07/2012 5:56:51 PM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: Olog-hai

The PC god strikes again.


28 posted on 07/07/2012 6:05:40 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Olog-hai

Separate but equal training??? Is that allowed?


29 posted on 07/07/2012 6:10:53 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: 2banana

Why can’t we bring new policies up for review after so many years? We had all of these dumb policies put in place during the “I am woman hear me roar” era and we are still stuck with them. No one ever questions whether they have worked well or not or if they are actually good for the duties of the military.


30 posted on 07/07/2012 6:21:23 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: TSgt

Your silence is deafening.


31 posted on 07/07/2012 7:25:47 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Exactly. Second coming of Jim Crow.


32 posted on 07/07/2012 7:33:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: X-spurt
So just why would I give a damn what some halfwit wannabe thinks about anything?

It's not about what I think. It is about fact. You are full of BS. Others have noticed, but I called you on it.

33 posted on 07/08/2012 8:04:03 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (I made a prank call...pretended I was a mime.)
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To: Olog-hai

I have a feeling Gen. LeMay would have skinned their scrawny hides and dropped them out of the belly of a B-52


34 posted on 07/08/2012 8:07:55 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Olog-hai
if they don't enforce fraternalizaion rules among the heteros, the homos are going to go off the deep end...

sorry thing about this story to me is that probably most of these male instructors are married with children....how sad.....

35 posted on 07/08/2012 10:04:22 PM PDT by cherry (Catholics for Romney)
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To: Jack Hammer
tell my mother who was in the Navy nurse corp in WW2 that she wasn't part of a military organization....

but I agree with the general consensus that its over the top now....

why are males "instructing" females but then again, what's worse?...lesbians instructing?....its a no win situation, soon to become worse with open homosexuality the new fad....

36 posted on 07/08/2012 10:07:31 PM PDT by cherry (Catholics for Romney)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

I say you know nothing about what you claim regarding what “others” thought. So how did you learn ALL of the “others” thoughts, by ESP? Or was it just you and that frog in your pocket?

Look jerk, unless you were there in 62, you have no way to make any claim to fact or fiction. Obviously you wish it wasn’t so and got cranked up because of some PC sensativity. Much to my chagrin, I was there, I personally witnessed the incident.

I’ll be damn happy to take this as far as you wish. You picked the wrong dude to try running over!

Now you go have a good day jacking with someone easier to push around.


37 posted on 07/08/2012 10:12:37 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: X-spurt
I’ll be damn happy to take this as far as you wish.

It's easy to be tough on the internet. Go eat your saltpeter and settle down.

38 posted on 07/09/2012 8:41:59 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (I made a prank call...pretended I was a mime.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

From looking at your post history, looks like you are probably some DU troll coming on now and then and getting into fights with every poster.


39 posted on 07/09/2012 8:50:43 AM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: X-spurt
I overheard the exact same comment circa 1990. Those DI’s need to get some new material.

And do you foolishly think they also fed us something to make us constipated? Rumors about being fed salt peter were just that - rumors. Something to explain a curious lack of sexual arousal in 18 year old men - but the truth is that they have the recruits in an animal state of fear so much that you cannot relax enough to take a sh*t - let alone get sexually aroused.

Either I built up a tolerance after a couple weeks or have an irrepressible libido - because soon after I relaxed enough to defecate - my other bodily functions also returned to normal.

40 posted on 07/09/2012 8:52:27 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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