The Navy officer who supervised a SEAL accused of fatally stabbing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 was charged Tuesday with various offenses tied to the case, including allegations he conducted the SEAL’s re-enlistment ceremony next to the corpse and encouraged enlisted personnel to pose for photos with the body.
The Tennessee Air National Guard colonel who led a re-enlistment ceremony in which a senior noncommissioned officer recited her oath using a dinosaur puppet has been demoted and retired.
A video of an Air National Guard master sergeant reciting her oath of re-enlistment while using a dinosaur hand puppet has drawn a rebuke from a three-star general.
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright suggested the service move to a so-called “indefinite enlistment” system that keeps senior enlisted airmen in until they decide it‘s time to leave.
The Defense Department decided that it will not force some 17,000 California National Guard soldiers to repay enlistment bonuses and other payments that they received a decade ago due to a payroll-related snafu.