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Airman at facility overseeing US ballistic missiles caught smoking pot on duty – report
24 Oct, 2019 04:26 / Updated 44 minutes ago
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FILE PHOTO: Airmen at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, February 10, 2019 © Global Look Press / U.S. Air Force
An airman at a US Air Force base, overseeing nuclear-tipped missiles and bombers, has reportedly been caught red-handed puffing a joint in a missile alert facility, prompting an investigation.
The news about the incident has begun spreading like a wildfire after it was first reported by a popular Air Force Forum page on Facebook earlier this week.
The report claimed that an airman was “caught smoking marijuana in one of the MAFs (missile alert facilities),” at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base, and that investigators later found a “rolled joint” in one of the “interior couch cushions.”
The post, published October 20, claimed that while the weed-loving airman was “removed from the field” and that an investigation had been launched, the commanders were trying hard to keep the potentially security-compromising slip from becoming the talk of the town.
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Apparently, somebody was unwilling to keep mum and spilled the beans online, forcing the base into full-on damage control mode after the story was picked up by several military publications and made its way into the mainstream.
Air Force Spokesman Sgt. Benjamin Smith revealed Wednesday that the incident took place on October 9. The base acknowledged that “illegal drugs,” namely an unspecified amount of marijuana, were recovered as a result of the search. However, the Air Force denied the initial report that the substance was found inside a MAF, saying there was “no indication that illegal drugs were found below ground or near any missile operator.”
“Illegal drugs were found in the above-ground facilities of a Minot AFB Missile Alert Facility,” the base said in a statement, promising to give a more detailed account of the incident once a “thorough investigation,” now underway, is wrapped up.
“We take this matter seriously and will investigate this fully,” 2nd Lieutenant Gabriel M. Cushing, a spokesman for the base's 5th Bomb Wing, told Task & Purpose.
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Whether the Air Force is trying to make the incident sound less alarming in terms of security, or whether the author of the FB post has mixed things up, is up for speculation.
The Minot Air Base is somewhat notorious for its record of embarrassing security lapses, however. In 2008, an investigation was launched after three ballistic missile crew members at the base were caught dozing off on the job while in possession of classified launch code devices.
Last year, Air Force offered a $5,000 reward for information that could have helped to locate and retrieve an armored box containing MK19 machine gun and launcher rounds after it fell off the vehicle travelling from the base.
Minot is home to one of the US’s two B-52 bomber bases and watches over 150 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.
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US Air Force fires commander of 69th bomb squad for ‘penis drawings’ inside B-52 cockpit
30 Nov, 2018 00:08
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The commander of a B-52 Stratofortress squadron has been removed from duty after he was blamed for making “sexually explicit and phallic drawings” with the map software inside the bomber’s cockpit during a recent deployment.
Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was relieved of his post commanding the 69th Bomb Squadron after crude penis drawings were discovered on the plane’s Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) moving map software, which records shared data for post-sortie debriefs, according to a source familiar with the incident who spoke to Military.com.
An Air Force press release merely stated Goossen was dismissed “due to a loss of trust and confidence from his failure to maintain a professional workplace environment” after a command-led investigation.
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Multiple members of the flying 69th created the drawings during the unit’s deployment to Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar between September 2017 and April 2018, according to the source, who said the images were screencapped and saved to CD so they could be played back for laughs during an end-of-deployment party.
Unfortunately, someone left the evidence behind when the squadron returned home to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and it was turned in to officials, who launched an investigation based on the prurient material. Col. Bradley Cochran, commander of the 5th Bomb Wing led the inquiry, which ended last month.
Air Force Global Strike spokesman Lt. Col. Uriah Orland would not comment on the details of the charges against Goossen, but did say that the Air Force’s zero-tolerance conduct policy “includes creating or contributing to an unhealthy, inappropriate work environment.”
The disgraced pilot led the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during the last B-52 missions against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria before the Middle Eastern fleet was replaced by B-1B Lancers, according to the Air Force. It was by all appearances a model unit, beating an Air Force record for number of missions flown without a maintenance cancellation. Goossen even spoke to President Trump on the phone during one of the Commander-in-Chief’s holiday conference calls to deployed personnel.
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Airman at facility overseeing US ballistic missiles caught smoking pot on duty – report
24 Oct, 2019 04:26 / Updated 44 minutes ago
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FILE PHOTO: Airmen at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, February 10, 2019 © Global Look Press / U.S. Air Force
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An airman at a US Air Force base, overseeing nuclear-tipped missiles and bombers, has reportedly been caught red-handed puffing a joint in a missile alert facility, prompting an investigation.
The news about the incident has begun spreading like a wildfire after it was first reported by a popular Air Force Forum page on Facebook earlier this week.
The report claimed that an airman was “caught smoking marijuana in one of the MAFs (missile alert facilities),” at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base, and that investigators later found a “rolled joint” in one of the “interior couch cushions.”
The post, published October 20, claimed that while the weed-loving airman was “removed from the field” and that an investigation had been launched, the commanders were trying hard to keep the potentially security-compromising slip from becoming the talk of the town.
Also on rt.com US Air Force fires commander of 69th bomb squad for ‘penis drawings’ inside B-52 cockpit
Apparently, somebody was unwilling to keep mum and spilled the beans online, forcing the base into full-on damage control mode after the story was picked up by several military publications and made its way into the mainstream.
Air Force Spokesman Sgt. Benjamin Smith revealed Wednesday that the incident took place on October 9. The base acknowledged that “illegal drugs,” namely an unspecified amount of marijuana, were recovered as a result of the search. However, the Air Force denied the initial report that the substance was found inside a MAF, saying there was “no indication that illegal drugs were found below ground or near any missile operator.”
“Illegal drugs were found in the above-ground facilities of a Minot AFB Missile Alert Facility,” the base said in a statement, promising to give a more detailed account of the incident once a “thorough investigation,” now underway, is wrapped up.
“We take this matter seriously and will investigate this fully,” 2nd Lieutenant Gabriel M. Cushing, a spokesman for the base's 5th Bomb Wing, told Task & Purpose.
Also on rt.com Found some grenades? US Air Force offering $5k reward for missing munitions
Whether the Air Force is trying to make the incident sound less alarming in terms of security, or whether the author of the FB post has mixed things up, is up for speculation.
The Minot Air Base is somewhat notorious for its record of embarrassing security lapses, however. In 2008, an investigation was launched after three ballistic missile crew members at the base were caught dozing off on the job while in possession of classified launch code devices.
Last year, Air Force offered a $5,000 reward for information that could have helped to locate and retrieve an armored box containing MK19 machine gun and launcher rounds after it fell off the vehicle travelling from the base.
Minot is home to one of the US’s two B-52 bomber bases and watches over 150 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.
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US Air Force fires commander of 69th bomb squad for ‘penis drawings’ inside B-52 cockpit
30 Nov, 2018 00:08
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© Reuters / Ho New
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The commander of a B-52 Stratofortress squadron has been removed from duty after he was blamed for making “sexually explicit and phallic drawings” with the map software inside the bomber’s cockpit during a recent deployment.
Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was relieved of his post commanding the 69th Bomb Squadron after crude penis drawings were discovered on the plane’s Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) moving map software, which records shared data for post-sortie debriefs, according to a source familiar with the incident who spoke to Military.com.
An Air Force press release merely stated Goossen was dismissed “due to a loss of trust and confidence from his failure to maintain a professional workplace environment” after a command-led investigation.
Read more
Multiple members of the flying 69th created the drawings during the unit’s deployment to Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar between September 2017 and April 2018, according to the source, who said the images were screencapped and saved to CD so they could be played back for laughs during an end-of-deployment party.
Unfortunately, someone left the evidence behind when the squadron returned home to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and it was turned in to officials, who launched an investigation based on the prurient material. Col. Bradley Cochran, commander of the 5th Bomb Wing led the inquiry, which ended last month.
Air Force Global Strike spokesman Lt. Col. Uriah Orland would not comment on the details of the charges against Goossen, but did say that the Air Force’s zero-tolerance conduct policy “includes creating or contributing to an unhealthy, inappropriate work environment.”
The disgraced pilot led the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during the last B-52 missions against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria before the Middle Eastern fleet was replaced by B-1B Lancers, according to the Air Force. It was by all appearances a model unit, beating an Air Force record for number of missions flown without a maintenance cancellation. Goossen even spoke to President Trump on the phone during one of the Commander-in-Chief’s holiday conference calls to deployed personnel.
Too bad he had to go and let his squad draw all those penises. The US Military, clearly not busy enough fighting the expensive and expansive War on Terror, has been cracking down on juvenile pranks by soldiers. Two California Marines were grounded earlier this month after executing a flight pattern resembling a penis. Last year, two Navy pilots were disciplined after skywriting a crude phallic image with their plane off Whidbey Island, Washington.
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