Posted on 05/10/2018 7:00:36 AM PDT by rktman
A U.S. Army soldier has been reduced in rank to the E-1 grade and given a Bad Conduct Discharge after a panel of soldiers and officers ruled he deliberately destroyed three Humvee vehicles being airdropped during an exercise by cutting the straps to their parachutes.
The issue has been covered closely by the Military Times and the site reported Wednesday that Sgt. John Skipper, a Germany-based cavalry scout, was convicted of destruction of government property and making false statements.
The event happened in 2016. Skipper was found guilty of three instances of destroying military property worth over $500 and lying.
Military officials said Silver was not a parachute rigger, but a scout who was told to help the Italy-based parachute riggers for the exercise.
Video of the incident went viral on the web, and showed the vehicles exploding on impact after they were dropped during the Saber Junction exercise at the Hohenfels Training Area in Germany.
A soldier on the ground, making the video, can be heard cheering and laughing and using very offensive language.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Bad Conduct? It’s criminal destruction of Federal property. Dishonorable discharge and charge him with Federal Property damage at the least.
You would be luck to get that much now.
I would have been laughing.
Dr. Mark T. Esper
Secretary of the Army
101 Army Pentagon
Washington, DC 20310-0101
BUMP!
No only that there should be extra charge of excessive stupidity. Did he think nobody would notice?
One in 100,000 is a statistic, 3 on 1 drop is sabotage. Glad nobody was killed or injured on the ground. There’s no mitigating circumstances. 100% of the maximum sentence.
A DD is too good for this *sshole. He should be shot.
So the bailiff whacked his pee-pee and nothing more?
I know not funny, but for some reason I’m laughing at the thought of these vehicles dropping straight to the ground.
You have to wonder if this soldier was on drugs to do something so deliberate, destructive and stupid.
What he did (repeatedly) takes a lot of concentrated effort.
It’s not like flipping a switch or just dropping a single strap.
“All this for a sight gag?”
Found his photo. If obama had a son......
That’s why I think the video taker is totally complicit and deserved more than a reprimand.
Sounds like it. Not even a DD.
Heck, we see when a guy gets nailed in the stones, other guys kind of joke and laugh about it, albeit somewhat nervously...
There - fixed it.
You must not be a taxpayer...
Again, as others have mentioned: protected class.
He did it three times. 3 times 10 = 30 Years...
Yes, needs hard labor busting rocks for 15 years. Somebody could have been killed by a large dropped item falling at excessive speeds. Crazy. Plus the guy laughing with the video camera needs a special "tune up" too.
And I remember when I got reprimanded by a E-6 for not finishing eating my spaghetti and meat balls C rations during a field exercise in Germany 45 years ago.
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