From this article.
Posted on 05/16/2019 7:08:38 PM PDT by usafa92
A special operations pilot at the Air Force Academy is accused of rape, rape of a child and three counts of sexual abuse of a child, the school announced Thursday.
Maj. Travis J. Burns will appear in military court Monday for an Article 32 hearing, which “is similar to a civilian grand jury proceeding,” an academy news release says. “The primary role of the hearing is to determine if probable cause exists to support the charge and its specifications.”
A preliminary hearing officer presides over the hearing and submits a report of the proceedings with recommendations to the special court-martial convening authority — in this case, the commandant of cadets. The commandant will decide whether to dismiss the case, recommend that it be referred to a general court martial or “dispose of the case through other disciplinary or administrative action,” the release says.
The child involved in the alleged rape and repeated sexual abuses was under the age of 12, Burns’ charge sheet shows. Those alleged crimes happened in 2017 and 2018 in Colorado Springs.
An earlier rape is alleged to have occurred in December 2013 near Clovis, N.M., and involved a woman.
Burns is assigned to Cadet Squadron 23 at the academy, military records show. His title is chief of plans and programs.
Special operations airmen are tasked with “being mentally tougher, physically stronger, and ardently committed to serving our country and protecting our freedom,” the Air Force’s website says. “A job for the best of the best, this elite team of heroes goes where others won’t because they are trained and ready to do what others can’t.”
Burns joined the Air Force on June 28, 2005. He has received awards including the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Force Achievement Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Aerial Achievement Medal and the Joint Service Achievement Medal.
Insertion and extraction of para-rescue, maybe?
Going from multi-engine aircraft to an 8 pound hammer will change him. It may not end the perversion, but he will be a changed man.
Is he going through a divorce? Just laying Devil’s Advocate.
Or he is entirely innocent and the victim of an ex-girlfriend, ex-wife, or simply a family friend whose 12-year-old daughter who has made this up as a get-out-of-jail free card for some misdeed of her own — or she also is innocent, the victim of a recovered memory “therapist.”
The Air Force is pretty picky about its officers, and I think when a healthy intelligent tall young man who obviously has good social skills is accused like this, it should be met with healthy skepticism. I say unless the accuser is bleeding and weeping in the ER with a positive rape kit, he/she needs to be put on trial first.
Go ahead, hate me, I one of the strongest defenders of womens rights in this forum, but this nonsense has gotten way out of hand, and it is time to put a stop to it. This young patriot serving his country is entitled to the presumption of innocence!
err that is a Marine not the accused.
From this article.
OV-22 Osprey pilot.
The article says “Maj. Travis J. Burns will appear in military court Monday for an Article 32 hearing, which “is similar to a civilian grand jury proceeding,” an academy news release says. “The primary role of the hearing is to determine if probable cause exists to support the charge and its specifications.”” need to see more first.
Hey speaking of the AFA look what I found!
(2 tickets to see Trump at the AFA graduation May 30th).
Do you think I should bid on them?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/153491799824
Yes, I see a few of us noticed.
If some one keeps up on this case, my bet is the guy is a homo and the victim is a boy... Air Force = Gay Friendly
Hmm, I had not considered that.
I’m not going to hate you. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Certainly, any and all evidence must be scrutinized.
However, if it turns out to be true, then he deserves the worst.
What I was thinking too. I saluted enough of them to know what a USAF Major looks like.
The article said the rape in 2013 was of a woman.
Major Burns? Guess he got tired of hotlips...
I don’t disagree with you and the thought did cross my mind, however there are other incidents alleged going back to 2012-2013, so this will quite rightly go to a full court martial and then we will see.
He’s done. The military is especially hard on members who commit sex crimes.
Courts martial charges and sentences are documented and available to the public. There’s a link to them on the Camp LeJeune website.
Love reading the sentences being given to monsters like this guy.
https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/sja/Court-Martial-Reports/
Link to courts-martial reports. Interesting reading.
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