{"id":40930,"date":"2014-03-28T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40930"},"modified":"2014-03-27T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:24:44","slug":"air-force-fires-officers-for-nuke-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40930","title":{"rendered":"Air Force fires officers for nuke scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg and PintoNag send us links to the story that the Air Force has fired nine &#8220;commanders&#8221; and will discipline a dozen more in regards to the ballistic weapons force scandal that rocked Malmstrom Air Force Base&#8217;s 341st Missile Wing earlier this year, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.msn.com\/us\/commanders-fired-in-nuke-missile-cheating-scandal\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investigators determined that the cheating, which officials originally said happened in August or September last year, began as early as November 2011 and continued until November 2013, according to a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to reveal details before James&#8217; announcement. It involved unauthorized passing of answers to exams designed to test missile launch officers&#8217; proficiency in handling &#8220;emergency war orders,&#8221; which are messages involving the targeting and launching of missiles.<\/p>\n<p>When the cheating was first revealed, Air Force leaders condemned it as violating the most basic Air Force values. They also suggested that it reflected an unhealthy pressure from commanders to achieve perfect test scores. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The commander of the wing, Col. Robert Stanley, was allowed to resign, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg and PintoNag send us links to the story that the Air Force has fired nine &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force fires officers for nuke scandal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40930\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force fires officers for nuke scandal<\/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-40930","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\/40930","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=40930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}