Posted on 08/07/2003 11:33:25 PM PDT by carlo3b
Air Force Drops Rape Charges Vs. OfficerASSOCIATED PRESS
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) - The Air Force said it has dropped charges against an officer accused of raping an Air Force Academy cadet last year.
Second Lt. Ronen Segal was accused of attacking the cadet at his Colorado Springs home on Aug. 25 after a night of drinking.
The charges were dropped after the investigating officer said the woman was capable of giving or withholding consent and "did not in any way object to or resist" sex, the Air Force said Thursday, according to The Gazette of Colorado Springs.
Segal, a 2002 Air Force Academy graduate assigned to the North American Aerospace Command, was the second man associated with the academy to be charged with rape since February, when dozens of female cadets began coming forward to say they had been attacked.
Segal had faced charges of rape, forcible sodomy and dereliction of duty by providing alcohol to a minor.
The investigating officer, Army Col. William Sells Jr., recommended dropping the charges, and Segal's commanding officer, Brig. Gen. Duane Deal of the 21st Space Wing, accepted the recommendation.
Segal said in a statement he was relieved that the charges were dropped.
The woman who accused Segal of rape could not be reached for comment.
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Please allow me to respond without saying I am bashing you or you comments. I understand full well how you arrived at your questions.
That's what I don't get in these cases. Why can't they just date civilians? Why hit on other military?
Many of them do. Their used to be an expression among 2nd Lts who were married right out of the Academy: Colorodo Springs Brides. The women in Colorado are beautiful, smart, and charming. Many cadets date them. But----human beings cloistered together at the AF Academy in tight bunches tend to associate closely with one another. There is another expression there: Falcon Luv. It is based on the school mascot and a tongue in cheek reference to the romances that occur at the Academy. Do a search on Google about where many spouses and lovers meet their mates:
Many, many say they meet them at their places of employment and/or school. The AF Academy is no different.
Have there been rapes there? I just don't know, but I suspect there have been some, of course. You would be a fool not to believe otherwise. Have they been as numerous as the accusations, and as the NOW gang says? I doubt it.
But I do know this: many of the female cadets who have accused others had a HUGE ax to grind--because they were lousy cadets and were kicked out.
What is being done to the institution is harmful--and everyone knows it---and most are afraid to say anything.
I be not!
Bingo, the perception that trying harder can somehow overcome the riggers of training, is a myth. Physical endurance is an acquired attribute but cannot overcome sheer body size, and natural strength.
More than a majority of men cannot measure up to the physical requirements of the Academy, how would we expect the normal woman to do so. It's a given, and I've witnessed it that there are the occasional woman that could master these tasks, and even far excelled, but if my memory served me well, ..those are not, in most part, the women that are the object of the affection of the average red blooded male cadet...if you get my drift....drifting on
Warrant officers hold warrants from their service secretary and are specialists and experts in certain military technologies or capabilities. The lowest ranking warrant officers serve under a warrant, but they receive commissions from the president upon promotion to chief warrant officer 2. These commissioned warrant officers are direct representatives of the president of the United States. They derive their authority from the same source as commissioned officers but remain specialists, in contrast to commissioned officers, who are generalists.
CW2 and up are commissioned. Cadets are not.
Im curious now. Ill check Title 10.
If only he had buggered a male cadet. He'd get to become an Episcopal bishop and have a book deal with TV movie pending.
The speech of some people is more free than the speech of others. Welcome to Animal Farm....
Isn't life in the USA grand these days...?!
2) It looks like the relationship started while they were both cadets
Or for female cadets to sell sex in exchange for favorable treatment or advancement
You've got to move Boar Willie Jeff and Sow Shrillery out of their spots....
All Naval Academy students, men and women, are called midshipmen, which is a rank between chief warrant officer and ensign in the Navy.
Interesting. I'm still not convinced, though.
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