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| Subject: House Armed Services chairman visits Air Force base in Texas reeling from sex scandal Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:06 pm | |
| The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said the Air Force is diligently investigating a widening sex scandal at Lackland Air Force Base after he made a personal visit to the Texas installation on Sunday.
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon spent three hours at the base, where he met with Gen. Edward Rice Jr., military officers, enlisted members and recruits. The base and the Air Force have been rocked by allegations that dozens of female recruits were sexually assaulted or harassed by their male instructors.
"Hundreds of investigators are following all kinds of leads," McKeon said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. In some cases, the investigators are going back two or three times, he said.
The California Republican, who made the stop in Texas on his way to Washington for Congress' return this week, said he received assurances from top military officers that they will do all they can to ensure the incidents don't occur again.
Military prosecutors have investigated more than a dozen instructors at Lackland and charged six with crimes ranging from rape to adultery. The most serious allegations involved an instructor sentenced to 20 years in prison in July after being convicted of raping one female recruit and sexually assaulting several others.
Lackland is where every new American airmen reports for eight weeks of basic training. About 35,000 graduate each year.
About one in five recruits are female, while most of the nearly 500 instructors are male.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/169105736.html _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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