{"id":64761,"date":"2016-03-10T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64761"},"modified":"2016-03-10T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:49:19","slug":"two-more-officers-gone-how-do-we-get-them-to-trust-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64761","title":{"rendered":"Two more officers gone; How do we get them to trust us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel some more navel gazing from the Department of Defense is on the schedule. Rear Admiral Rick Williams, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 15 watched pRon for nine hours while his sailors were training, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/03\/08\/strike-group-boss-watched-porn-hours-navy-computer-report\/81510180\/\">Navy Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All sailors go through regular computer training, particularly before getting underway, and Williams&#8217; story shocked many who thought he should have known better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senior naval officers, especially those in command, are expected to uphold unimpeachable personal, moral and ethical standards,&#8221; Rear Adm. Russell Allen, deputy 3rd Fleet commander, wrote in his findings of fact. &#8220;Rear Adm. Williams&#8217; personal violation of those standards, as detailed in this investigation, suggests he may have difficulty upholding those standards in the personnel he leads.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So he got fired for violating a lawful order and conduct unbecoming an officer. To his credit, he admitted the violation when confronted by investigators. If you&#8217;re interested, he seemed to be looking for videos with &#8220;cuck&#8221; in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/crime\/2016\/03\/09\/colonel-sentenced-sexual-abuse-minor-possessing-child-porn\/81528320\/\">Army Times<\/a>, they report that Colonel James Laughrey has been sentenced to eight years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse of a minor and for making and possessing child pRonography.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laughrey pleaded guilty to 10 specifications and asked to be tried by military judge alone, according to information from the Military District of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The judge accepted Laughrey&#8217;s plea, and the prosecuting attorneys dismissed the remaining charges and specifications.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Laughrey faced up to 91 years confinement, total forfeiture of pay and allowances and dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The judge sentenced him to eight years confinement and dismissal from the Army. Laughrey will automatically forfeit all pay and allowances because he was sentenced to more than six months confinement, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64609\">How do we get them to trust us?<\/a>&#8221; was the question they asked each other when the services assembled a group of officers in Colorado Springs to \u201cclean up misconduct in the ranks\u201d.  I hope there were a lot mirrors in the room during the discussion so those officers would see where the problem lies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel some more navel gazing from the Department of Defense is on the schedule. Rear &hellip; <a title=\"Two more officers gone; How do we get them to trust us?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64761\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two more officers gone; How do we get them to trust us?<\/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":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761","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=64761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}