Air Force, 34 nuclear missile officers implicated in cheating scandal

foxnews.com ^ | 1/16/14 | staff

[armydawg505]

Thirty-four nuclear missile launch officers have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification, and three others have been implicated in a drug probe, in what the Air Force believes is the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Wednesday.

The officers apparently texted to each other the answers to a monthly test on their knowledge of how to operate the missiles. The number includes who did the cheating as well as those who may have known about it but did not report it.

The cheating, which was discovered during a drug investigation that included two of the 34 officers, is the latest controversy involving the service members who maintain and operate the nation's 450 nuclear missiles.

In all, the drug scandal encompassed 11 Air Force officers across six bases in the U.S. and England. Of the three missile launch officers involved in the drug scandal, two were at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana and one was at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. The two at Malmstrom were among those implicated in the cheating scandal.

[bkopto]

I don’t doubt Obama would create an excuse to purge nuke launch officers for a nefarious purpose. Even if the result would be the deaths of millions. I believe that is his goal. It’s all part of the plan.

Agreed. Although cheating might have been going on, I believe that Bath House is leaving no stone unturned in finding ways to remove the current layer of military personnel, ultimately to replace them with personnel willing to swear loyalty to Bath House and his ideology, rather than the Constitution.

The Long March is now focusing on the end-game institution: the military.

[TomServo]

Yeah - I’ll take that bet.

Being ex-USAF and having “worked in the industry” so to speak.