{"id":71245,"date":"2017-04-04T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71245"},"modified":"2017-04-04T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:04:03","slug":"command-chief-master-sgt-jose-a-barraza-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71245","title":{"rendered":"Command Chief Master Sgt. Jose A. Barraza charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jose-A.-Barraza-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jose-A.-Barraza-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jose-A.-Barraza-283x333.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jose-A.-Barraza.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sent us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/noted-air-force-command-chief-master-sergeant-faces-15-ucmj-charges-1.461346#.WOOzzGyrM7N\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> in regards to Command Chief Master Sgt. Jose A. Barraza who was charged with 15 violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force would not specify what generated the charges but said they were tied to Barraza\u2019s time as the top noncommissioned officer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The base is home to the Boneyard, where preserved and retired aircraft are stored, and a sizable fleet of active A-10 aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By all accounts, Barraza was a model airman, rising from the mean streets of LA an gang roots to a top NCO in the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jqpublicblog.com\/355th-fighter-wing-commander-brings-charges-former-command-chief\/\">John Q. Public<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AFSOUTH Commander Lt. Gen. Mark Kelly removed Chief Master Sgt. Jose Barraza Nov. 23 due to a \u201closs of confidence in his ability to carry out his duties,\u201d AFSOUTH reported in November.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release dated March 30, the 355th Fighter Wing commander preferred charges against Barraza. The charges are the result of an ongoing investigation conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Barraza is charged with one specification for willfully disobeying an order, seven specifications for dereliction of duty, two specifications for making false official statements and five specifications for obstruction of justice in violation of UCMJ Articles 90, 92, 107 and 134 respectively. The 355th Fighter Wing Commander, Col. Scott C. Campbell, preferred the specifications.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing has not yet been scheduled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sent us a link to the Stars &#038; Stripes in regards to Command Chief Master &hellip; <a title=\"Command Chief Master Sgt. Jose A. Barraza charged\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71245\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Command Chief Master Sgt. Jose A. Barraza charged<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245","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=71245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}