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Air Force Crisis: Sex, Nukes And Leadership
http://breakingdefense.com/2013/05/08/air-force-leadership-crisis-sex-assaults-rot-in-nuclear-enterprise-third-of-planes-on-ground-17-nuke-launch-officers-relieved/
Air Force Crisis: Sex, Nukes And Leadership
By Colin Clark on May 08, 2013 at 3:39 PM
WASHINGTON: The Air Force faces a crisis of leadership, a crisis of confidence, a crisis that must be addressed by whomever is nominated as the next secretary. The service is being battered by news story after news story.
Today we learned of the suspension of 17 nuclear launch officers.
The Associated Press broke the story. And they got their hands on an email from the Minot missile commander. “We are, in fact, in a crisis right now,” the commander, Lt. Col. Jay Folds, wrote in an internal email obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by the Air Force.
Add to that the Sunday arrest for sexual misconduct of the Air Force officer charged with preventing sexual assault and the service’s widely perceived institutional weakness when it comes to defining its mission and the service clearly faces a major crisis.