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November 29, 2006
Not a pleasant conversation
From ABCNews:
A Marine officer, suspecting foul play or terrorism on the recent presidential visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, raised a security alarm after one of his men went missing for more than six hours, U.S. government sources tell ABC News.My guess is he's probably still being yelled at right now.The missing staff sergeant was a maintenance specialist assigned to the Marine One Presidential Helicopter detail. After a night out drinking with fellow Marines, the specialist "left his hotel on the back of a moped driven by a local national without telling anyone," a Marine Corps spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News.
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The specialist finally surfaced the next morning, hung over and late for work. According to an official account provided to ABC News by the Marine Corps, he explained, "He had become inebriated and spent the night with the local national."
A spokeswoman for the elite HMX1 Marine Aviation Unit, who declined to reveal the Marine's identity, said, "There would be no disciplinary action because the staff sergeant was on liberty and so technically not AWOL." But she added, "More than likely his commanding officer spoke to him in extremely strong language."
Posted by Chester at November 29, 2006 6:44 PM
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Gets drunk in a foreign country, goes off for the night with an unknown local. Security Clearance goes bye, bye. Job on Air Force One goes bye, bye. As a fact there's very few places outside the mess hall that someone without a security clearance can work in the Air Force. They didn't need to take any action, he did it to himself.
Posted by: Scrapiron at November 29, 2006 7:13 PM
Chester, I just read your piece at TCS Daily. You're right on the money sir. I just finished a short course in Arabic language and culture at a local community college but I need more.
Monday, at age 40 I signed my contract and swore my oath to become active duty infantry in the Army. I'm not sure what things will be like when I get to Iraq this summer, but your plan sounds better than any I've heard yet.
Ed, Chicago
Posted by: Edward at November 29, 2006 8:07 PM
Thanks very much, Ed!
Posted by: Chester at November 29, 2006 8:12 PM
One hopes she was pretty, and that that the Marine had a good time, to compensate him somewhat for the busted eardrums he is surely now enduring. . .
Posted by: El Jefe Maximo at November 29, 2006 8:48 PM