{"id":79321,"date":"2018-05-09T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79321"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T19:13:26","slug":"sergeant-john-skipper-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79321","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant John Skipper sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SN6LL-evvfU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/sergeant-who-sent-3-humvees-plummeting-from-plane-found-guilty-1.526073\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which reports that Sergeant John Skipper of the  1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade was sentenced for causing the destruction of three Humvees during an airborne landing in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sgt. John Skipper, 29, was found guilty at court martial in Vilseck, Germany, of destroying military property and giving a false official statement, according to a statement from the 7th Army Training Command, based in Grafenwoehr.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper was sentenced by a military jury to a bad-conduct discharge and reduction in grade to E-1.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper, a scout who had been assigned to assist the brigade\u2019s Italy-based parachute riggers during the exercise, intentionally cut parachute straps on three Humvees included in the heavy drop during the exercise, the jury found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We talked about Skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73225\">last year<\/a> when he was charged.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sergeant first class heard laughing and cursing on a video of the Humvees falling from the sky was punished previously. The sergeant, an observer trainer coach assigned to the 7th ATC\u2019s Joint Multinational Readiness Center, was given an administrative letter of reprimand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to Stars &#038; Stripes which reports that Sergeant John Skipper of &hellip; <a title=\"Sergeant John Skipper sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79321\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sergeant John Skipper sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79321","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=79321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}