Sergeant John Skipper sentenced
Bobo sends us a link to Stars & Stripes which reports that Sergeant John Skipper of the 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade was sentenced for causing the destruction of three Humvees during an airborne landing in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany.
Sgt. John Skipper, 29, was found guilty at court martial in Vilseck, Germany, of destroying military property and giving a false official statement, according to a statement from the 7th Army Training Command, based in Grafenwoehr.
Skipper was sentenced by a military jury to a bad-conduct discharge and reduction in grade to E-1.
Skipper, a scout who had been assigned to assist the brigade’s Italy-based parachute riggers during the exercise, intentionally cut parachute straps on three Humvees included in the heavy drop during the exercise, the jury found.
We talked about Skipper last year when he was charged.
A sergeant first class heard laughing and cursing on a video of the Humvees falling from the sky was punished previously. The sergeant, an observer trainer coach assigned to the 7th ATC’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center, was given an administrative letter of reprimand.
Category: Army News
Was this idiot pissed because he was assigned to the rigging detail?
Who cares why?
Enjoy your well deserved Big Chicken Dinner, Pvt. Skipper.
Skipper got what he deserved. I don’t agree with the NCO getting a Letter of Reprimand for his impromptu remarks watching a dramatic event.
Yeah, sometimes people react to surprising/shocking events with inappropriate laughter. Doesn’t merit punishment IMO.
Sometimes all you can do is laugh.
NCO who laughs about something like this is not someone I want to serve with. Weird sense of humor. If all you can do is laugh then something like this happens you are in the wrong business.
High state of readiness + boredom = bad ideas poorly executed.
Surprised they didn’t give the ass hat brig time also.
Interesting. Destroy humvees as enlisted get a bad conduct discharge. Dereliction of duty by officer in charge resulting in 7 deaths? 3 month half pay.
Military justice strikes again. Maybe he should have cried and gotten a tattoo.
That’s the way that crap has always worked. While in Colombia once the commander was screwing a SSgt. She got booted. He got demoted. In a 20 person detachment sex should be taboo anyway. The focus becomes who’s getting some instead of on the wire.
Yeah, doesn’t seem proportional.
Different spanks… Skipper didn’t have a superior to roll over on…
Reminds me of air drop missions that I flew earlier this year during my deployment with the Tarrant Country Guard. I deployed in February 27, 2018. Everything was going fine until they had to send me home earlier.
My problem? I have no Sphincter control.
My farts and crap just pass through and come out whenever, however, and whatever they want. They just blow right out my ass as an instant, stinky, explosive cheese fart. All you could hear is a smooth fart sound, non of the rattling and jagged noise that these farts used to make.
Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H Chevalier
Hey PVT Skipper, that Big Chicken Dinner IS NOT going to look good on your Resume’, was that shit really worth it?
He’ll update that resume with retired E9 scoutsnipersealreconranger with 3 Silver Stars. And then he’ll be back in the TAH pages.
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time and as to his BCD he’ll say something like “Some shit went wrong on a Top Secret Mission and I was the scapegoat…”
“I’ve told you over and over, Skipper. All you’ve got to do is hook the parachute to the Humvee. Is that too much to ask?”
Now if it had been a Prius………..
HEYYYYYYYYYY! I drive a Prius V and get about 420 miles per tank.
Lighten up, Francis.
(^__^)
Cop pulls you over, and asks for proof of insurance, registration, and Man Card.
420 a tank? So do I… in a Forte. Costs half as much, 40mpg highway, and damn near invisible.
At least Numbnuts didn’t kill anyone—this time. What a douchebag.
They better take that million-plus dollars out of his ass.
Why would a SFC get in trouble for laughing and carrying on while watching? Was it because it was posted to YouTube?
For Pete’s sake, doesn’t anyone have a sense of humor anymore?
The SFC has to sweat out HRC’s QMP hit list. Just can’t afford any dings on the record – zero defects. One aw sh*t wipes out all the attaboys.
No fun allowed.
That shit pisses me the fuck off. Another career possibly fucked because some asshole just had to put something on Youtube. Hopefully this SFC doesn’t get QMP’d at 17.5 years because of his LOR.
Newsflash, Warriors- nobody gives a shit that you grouped in 36 rounds.
Shit falling out of an airplane isn’t gonna get the local housewives to spread their legs for your dumb ass.
Nor will your picture posing with an M4 with a fucking BFA out “in the shit” somewhere.
It’s too bad posting such pictures and videos isn’t a UCMJ offense- maybe call it Disclosure of Operational Information. Give a few jackasses 45/45 for their Youtube shit, maybe that’ll keep the cameras back in the fucking rear where they belong.
Because we all work frickin’ hard for everything that idiot and laughing jokester touch. In an age where everyone is appalled if one offends someone for the most idiotic of reasons, you ask why we have no sense of humor?Oh, what if they had killed people? Dumbnuts!
How much of my tax money has this yahoo wasted since he started his less than stellar career?
Oh! That’s right: all of it.
Did they ever blame somebody for not noticing the cut rigging lines? A have rigged a few rigs in my day and it all gets checked repeatedly.
I’m sure it was checked repeatedly, but this is “business as usual”. Some things got rushed, short-cuts were taken, so someone at the bottom of the rung gets blamed. That is how it works. Hey, maybe the guy really did “cut” the lines, but I tend to be a bit cynical.
Hope the laughs were worth fucking your life over, Private.
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!
I remember watching that video and thinking that some rigger(s) were about to have a very bad day. I would be interested in knowing what was going on with him to do such a stupid thing
Me, too. He CUT the friggin’ straps on three Hummers!!!????
WHAT IN THE HECK IS YOUR MALFUNCTION PRIVATE???
Probably upset that Bradley Manning assumed the dominant position in their relationship.
I am confused here.
Now if those were Gamma Goats, the Brigade PBO probably would have given him an Impact ARCOM./s
Gamma Goats…the most wretched, vile POSs that ever existed in the Army inventory. “War Story Alert”… Ft Riley KS..NCO was being transported in the “Ambulance” version of the infamous Gamma Goat due to a knee injury he suffered during ARTEP. Injury was quite severe. MEDEVAC requested, patient flown to Irwin Army Hospital for treatment. Medics check with ER at hospital to get an update a few days later. Staff advises patient incurred a back injury also. Most likely as a result of being transported to the LZ in a Goat. True story.
I saw a Gamma Goat last week at gas station in N.H. I hope they had hearing protection.
You knew you were tired when you fell asleep riding shotgun on a goat down a Ft. Bliss tank trail.
So did anyone ever figure out why he did this? I get the perpetual E2 fuck up just wanting to be a shithead, but that’s not something I’d expect from a Sgt with ten years in and about to EAS.
As a Vet, I say they should of given him some prison time along with the reduction and BCD. He did it intentional! $220,000 X3 HumV $660,000 tax payer dollars down the drain. Not to mention he could of killed someone with this stupid stun. And the jerk making video, he had to be in on it. And he got a slap on the wrist. Damn shame.
What B asked: WHY did he do it? Is it known why, or is it assumed he just fucked up unintentionally?
I don’t see anything wrong with the guy laughing. Call it spontaneous laughter, gallows humor. No harm, no foul. So he laughed. Probably anyone else would also have laughed.
I guess all humor and liberty is secured until morale improves.