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  • 2003-05-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Cadet Criticize the Air Force Chief of Staff? (en)
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  • Part of the fallout from a sexual assault scandal at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) was the announcement in late March 2003 of a shake-up which reassigned four top Academy officials — Brig. Gen. S. Taco Gilbert, commandant of cadets; Col. Steve Eddy, vice superintendent; Col. Bob Eskeridge, vice-commandant of cadets; and Col. Sue Slavec, training group commander — and replaced two of them with female officers (Col. Clada A. Monteith assumed command of the 34th Training Group, and Col. Debra Gray took over as vice-commandant of cadets). On 26 March 2003, a lowly C4C (i.e., a Cadet Fourth Class, essentially an Academy freshman) had the impudence to e-mail Gen. John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, to tell him that he didn't agree with the General's plans for reassigning four USAFA officials, and that he particularly didn't care for the replacement of Col. Eskeridge, vice-commandant of cadets, with a woman, one of whose only qualifications [was] that she is a female: The cadet's message (quoted above) drew rebukes (also quoted above) from Gen. Jumper and Dr. James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force (and reportedly Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's first choice to replace Tom White as secretary of the Army). If e-mail chastisement was the only official punishment the cadet received for breaching the chain of command, he should consider himself fortunate. (en)
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