{"id":38937,"date":"2013-12-20T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38937"},"modified":"2013-12-19T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:39:52","slug":"more-on-the-former-20th-af-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38937","title":{"rendered":"More on the Former 20th AF Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"

New information has been publicly released concerning the incident leading to the relief of Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, former Commander of the 20th Air Force.\u00a0 It turns out the rumor he was relieved due to misconduct on a \u201cbusiness trip\u201d involving alcohol were 100% true.<\/p>\n

Seems he was rather drunk and disorderly in public.\u00a0 But the circumstances are, shall we say, a bit different than one might expect.\u00a0 And that’s only part of the story.<\/p>\n

The misconduct occurred while Carey was traveling on official business in Russia<\/a>.\u00a0 And it also looks like he came pretty close to causing a diplomatic incident, and may have engaged in practices dangerous to security.<\/p>\n

While attending a nuclear security training exercise in Russia as head of a U.S. government delegation, Maj. Gen. Carey apparently was rather drunk and loud in the lobby of a hotel.\u00a0 And he also reputedly offered a toast at an official function that included remarks about the traitor Snowden \u2013 after Snowden had arrived in Russia, but before he had been offered asylum.\u00a0 The toast was reportedly \u201cnot well received\u201d by his Russian hosts.\u00a0 Imagine that.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Carey was reportedly “frequently rude to both his fellow delegates and to his Russian hosts” during the trip.\u00a0 He also reportedly spent some time during the trip socializing\u00a0 \u201cwith Russian or non-American women\u201d who he later acknowledged were \u201csuspect\u201d.<\/p>\n

When questioned about the trip afterwards by IG investigators, Carey also apparently had very poor memory. It appears he was rude to the IG investigators, too.<\/p>\n

Drunk, disorderly, rude to host nation officials, and chasing tail publicly while overseas.\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s exactly what one expects from a Major General TDY to a foreign nation conducting official business of a sensitive nature.<\/p>\n

IMO, looks like the USAF made the right call to relieve the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New information has been publicly released concerning the incident leading to the relief of Maj. Gen. … More on the Former 20th AF Commander<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}