{"id":173066,"date":"2025-08-23T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173066"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:10:51","slug":"saturday-shorts-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173066","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monolith, we hardly knew ye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, we’ll lead off with a recent one – been a few articles about then-MGEN Michael J. Turley, the Utah National Guard general who was accused and convicted of having an affair with a subordinate. He was basically forced out as a lieutenant colonel, a three-grade drop.\u00a0 Seemed cut and dried – he dipped his pen in a subordinate’s inkwell and was cut loose, right? Maybe not.<\/p>\n

The Army demoted Maj. Gen. Michael J. Turley to lieutenant colonel when he retired this month, a service official confirmed this week, after an Army Inspector General investigation substantiated an allegation of an inappropriate relationship.<\/p>\n

Turley, though, claims in a lawsuit filed last week that both the Army Inspector General and Utah officials did not interview the soldier with whom he allegedly had the relationship prior to drawing their conclusions. He also cites a second investigation by Utah officials that found \u201cno basis\u201d in accusations of improper conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen interviewed, that soldier, like General Turley, adamantly denied any sexual misconduct and submitted a detailed sworn affidavit indicating as much,\u201d according to the lawsuit, which Task & Purpose obtained through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER system.\u00a0\u00a0Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lot more here than the usual he-said\/she-said you would expect. This story may have legs – go read the article. Four years of investigation and never interviewed one of the principal actors? Hmmm…<\/p>\n

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You may recall Ed writing about Jinchao Wei, an enlisted Navy guy who was arrested two years ago for selling secrets to the Chinese.TAH<\/a><\/p>\n

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A US Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of espionage after a jury found him guilty of selling sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence officer.<\/p>\n

The sailor, Jinchao Wei \u2014 who was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage and \u201cunlawful export of, and conspiracy to export, technical data related to defense articles\u201d \u2014 will be sentenced on December 1, according to a statement from the Justice Department.\u00a0\u00a0CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Y’know, eastern Kansas is known to get real cold in the winter…<\/p>\n

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Russia carried out a drone raid that hit an American owned plant in western\u00a0 Ukraine\u00a0 this week.<\/p>\n

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In its overnight attacks, Russia launched a total of 574 strike drones and 40 missiles on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, hitting as far west as the city of Lviv.<\/p>\n

Missiles also struck an American-owned manufacturing company, Flex Ltd., in the western region of Zakarpattia, in an attack that injured at least 19 people, Ukrainian officials said. Flex is a American-Singaporean company that provides electronics manufacturing services and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.\u00a0\u00a0CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Flex (formerly Flextronics) is one of the largest contract assembly businesses going. One article said this plant makes a variety of items, such as coffee-makers and remote controls. While I sympathize with the 6 injured there, and Flex says they do not make military weapons, if Ukraine is repurposing any of their products in their weapons systems it’s hard to fault their legitimacy as a target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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