{"id":29167,"date":"2012-03-17T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29167"},"modified":"2012-03-17T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:16:44","slug":"af-disciplines-dover-officials-for-whistleblower-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29167","title":{"rendered":"AF disciplines Dover officials for whistleblower retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_MISHANDLED_REMAINS?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-03-16-12-21-16\">In the case of mishandled remains<\/a> of fallen troops processed at Dover Air Force Base, the Air Force has begun disciplining the officials who used threats of firing, terminations and disciplinary letters to retaliate against those who tried to stop the practices there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of two civilian mortuary supervisors involved in the retaliation, Quinton &#8220;Randy&#8221; Keel, has resigned from the Air Force. The [U.S. Office of Special Counsel] said the Air Force has begun disciplinary procedures against Edmondson and the other former supervisor, Trevor Dean. The disciplinary action the OSC referred to is in addition to earlier censures taken against the three in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force released a statement saying disciplinary proceedings have begun, and that it expects to complete its decisions by mid to late April. It also said it is working with OSC to make appropriate corrections to the whistleblowers&#8217; records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The individuals who reported the allegations in this matter performed an important service to the Air Force and the nation,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Yeah, see that&#8217;s what whistleblowers do, that&#8217;s not what &#8220;Breanna&#8221; Manning did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of mishandled remains of fallen troops processed at Dover Air Force Base, the &hellip; <a title=\"AF disciplines Dover officials for whistleblower retaliation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29167\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AF disciplines Dover officials for whistleblower retaliation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}