{"id":79816,"date":"2018-06-05T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79816"},"modified":"2018-06-05T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:33:24","slug":"colonel-john-howard-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79816","title":{"rendered":"Colonel John Howard charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79817\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Col.-John-Howard-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Col.-John-Howard-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Col.-John-Howard-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Col.-John-Howard-390x333.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Col.-John-Howard.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/06\/02\/fired-air-force-wing-commander-charged-with-sexual-assault-cruelty\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=ebb+04.06.18&#038;utm_term=Editorial+-+Early+Bird+Brief\">Air Force Times<\/a> reports that Colonel John Howard, commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing at Scott Air Force Base, has been charged with two specifications of cruelty and maltreatment, two specifications of sexual assault, one specification of conduct unbecoming an officer, and one specification of fraternization in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between July and September 2016 at or near Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, Howard is accused of maltreatment of the senior airman, whose name is redacted, by rubbing his groin against the senior airman and making inappropriate comments on at least two occasions, according to the charge sheet.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2017, Howard is accused of sexually assaulting the senior airman at or near Bangor, Maine.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Howard was relieved last December because his commander had lost confidence in his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Times reports that Colonel John Howard, commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing &hellip; <a title=\"Colonel John Howard charged\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79816\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colonel John Howard charged<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79816","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\/79816","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=79816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}