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https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/12\/07\/air-force-failed-four-times-to-prevent-last-years-texas-church-shooting-dod-ig-now-reviewing-other-services\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:<\/p>\n The Air Force could have prevented\u00a0a former airman from buying a weapon<\/a>\u00a0and committing\u00a0a mass shooting last year\u00a0<\/a>had investigators followed proper protocol, according to a Pentagon investigation of the incident released this week.<\/p>\n The investigation casts doubt on the capabilities of\u00a0Air Force Office of Special Investigations<\/a>\u00a0agents and the training of ordinary security forces airmen, according to the Defense Department Inspector General report, released Dec. 6.<\/p>\n The findings, and a follow-up review across the DoD, could have implications across all the armed forces investigative arms.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are currently conducting a follow-up review to assess the progress throughout the DoD in ensuring that all fingerprints required to be submitted to the FBI are in fact submitted,\u201d DoD IG officials said. \u201cThis review will also assess whether DoD law enforcement agencies submit DNA to the FBI\u2019s Combined DNA Index System, as well as criminal history data, mental health information, and sex offender information, as required.\u201d<\/p>\n On Nov. 5, 2017, former airman Devin Kelley shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. After being shot by citizen responders, Kelley fled from the church in his vehicle and later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n Kelley was able to purchase a firearm from a federally licensed dealer even though he had a disqualifying conviction<\/em>. – Article.<\/p>\n The remainder of the story, which outlines the cascade of failures to follow up every time this investigation went further, is at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Submitted by Skippy https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/12\/07\/air-force-failed-four-times-to-prevent-last-years-texas-church-shooting-dod-ig-now-reviewing-other-services\/ From the article: The Air Force could have prevented\u00a0a former airman from … One Big Fustercluck<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,224,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-darwin-awards","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}