Air Force
Friday updates
Well, leading off we have AF Major General Phillip Stewart. The general was accused of sexual assault, conduct unbecoming an officer, and one specification of dereliction of duty. Prior to the trial, he pleaded guilty to the other specification, as well as an adultery charge. A panel of eight officers found Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart […]
Special operations commander charged for choking family members
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Brent Byng, 44, was in command of the 19th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field in Florida. Not long after taking command, Byng was charged for committing violence against a couple of his family members. One charge involved Byng’s choking his wife until she could not draw breath. Another charge involved […]
AF General on trial this week
Air Force Major General Phillip Stewart has been accused of a variety of sexual crimes, and is due to be court-martialed for them. Court-martial proceedings for an Air Force two-star general charged with sexual assault are being held this week in Texas, marking only the second time in history that a general officer in the […]
Valor Friday
We talked about Philip Conran briefly several years back. At the time, I wrote a piece on him for Valor Friday, but it appears that it was never shared with the blog. Here it is, five years later. A congressman from California, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D), has introduced legislation authorizing the president to upgrade Air […]
Valor Friday
For a time during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many awards for combat valor were being awarded in secret. At one point it was nearly 20% of the service crosses and Silver Stars. This is done to protect the recipient and their family, most often while they’re deployed (or subject to likely subsequent and […]
Thursday updates- Fortson, Biden, Lee, and 6/6
You should recall Roger Fortson, the young airman killed by a deputy sheriff in Florida after answering his door with a gun in his hand. For a good start – the deputy has been fired. Deputy Eddie Duran, an Army veteran who had been with the department since 2019, was fired from the Okaloosa County […]
F-35 crash in NM
A brand-new F-35B crashed on takeoff from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque on Wednesday. A pilot from the Defense Contract Management Agency was at the F-35B’s controls at the time of the incident. The plane had refueled at Kirtland Air Force Base, just adjacent to the airport, before the crash. The pilot ejected from […]
Air Force promotions influenced by completion of DEI related training
James O’Keefe, of O’Keefe Media Group, released another undercover video. In this video, a man working for the Air Force discloses what DEI people are actually doing in the military. The man, Jake Reyna, has a low opinion of “old white men” mainly due to their conservative leanings. He admitted that the completion or none-completion […]
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