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Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge?

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Sat Feb 12, 2005 at 04:57:50 PM EST
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The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, having just gone through a major scandal over sexual assaults, is about to face another crisis --over ethics:

Prohibited conduct — academic cheating, intoxication on and off academy grounds, leaving the academy without permission and sex in dormitories — occurs "with enough frequency and impunity to indicate a serious likelihood that future incidents will subject the (academy) to public embarrassment and criticism," said the report by the Los Angeles-based Josephson Institute of Ethics.

Who's in charge? Doesn't the responsibility for choosing the head of a military Academy fall to the Defense Department? Maybe Rumsfeld needs to pay more attention to what's happening under his nose than on the other side of the world.

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    • Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 12, 2005 at 05:22:29 PM EST
    Yeah, that's the ticket - ignore two occupied countries, the hunt for OBL (every is always wanking about that, no?), rearranging the military, etc, etc. Yeah, the AFA scandal should be #1 on the to-do list. Isn't there a general in charge already? Heck, I heard that a Janitor at Seymour-Johnson AFB has a hangnail.... -C PS - Should this level of accountability apply to Kofi over Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Oil-for-my-son, sex-scandals, etc, etc?

    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 12, 2005 at 05:34:17 PM EST
    I don't think the new head of the academy has been in place long enough to have measurable results in any of these areas. And they apparently commissioned this study just so they'd know where they were at and what they needed to do. Give them some time to make corrections, and if they don't, then go after them.

    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 02:15:33 AM EST
    Cliff, Dave Cullen has done a lot of reporting on the AFA, here and here. Rumsfeld, et al in the administration are not blameless by any means, and much of the response from the Pentagon has been in the form of show trials rather than real reform--mostly before the new management was appointed. So I do think it's only fair to give the new AFA administration the chance to make changes before we criticize them too much.

    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 06:06:00 AM EST
    Michael - Actually, joking aside, that is what i meant by "there is a general in charge." Those are the guys what are supposed to fix things, not the SecDef or the President. Of course the military has responded with show trials. It's just a regular old large organization - with a few more guns than Nortel, Krispy Kreme, AIG, etc. -C

    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 11:26:48 AM EST
    Cliff right, and no one but we all are in charge of the ship called never,never land, titanic anyone?

    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#7)
    by kdog on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 09:33:16 AM EST
    academic cheating, intoxication on and off academy grounds, leaving the academy without permission and sex in dormitories
    Sounds like normal college behavior to me. It may be the AFA, but it's still a university setting. Nothing I'm getting worked up over.

    Re: Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 12:07:32 PM EST
    Holy sh!t, their having sex in that college dormitory. Whats next?

    Air Force Academy: Who's in Charge? | 7 comments (7 topical)