From my archive of press clippings:
Stars and Stripes
Analysis: Are Air Force firings about more than nuclear weapons?
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, June 8, 2008
ARLINGTON, Va. — Defense Secretary Robert Gates forced the resignations of the Air Force secretary and its top general for reasons much deeper than nuclear accountability, ones that reflected his increasing displeasure with the direction the two were taking the service, according to reported comments from one military analyst and a senior military official.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Gates said his decision to demand the resignations Thursday of Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley was based entirely on a classified Pentagon finding that cited what he called "a chain of failures" in the Air Force’s safeguarding of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
The decision marked the first time any secretary of defense had fired both the service secretary and top officer of any branch of the military at the same time."
Monday, January 26, 2009
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