36 Censored Military History

1995-0218, SF, Rape, 1SG Executed for Rape and Murder.
Louis Jones. Jr. grew up in the mean streets of Chicago. He dabbled in drugs, mainly methamphetamine but only on weekends. He stayed in school and then joined the Army.
Jones thrived in the Military he made 1SG in one of the most elite units in the Military, the Army Rangers. He was a combat veteran in both Grenada and Desert Storm.
After 22-years of honorable service, he retired. He had a lot of time on his hands. He thought he would try Meth again. He remembered how much fun it was in high school. He had not used Meth while in the Army. Military troops are given a mandatory, unannounced, observed, urinalysis five-times a year. After only a few weeks 1SG (retired) Jones was doing Meth every day. He was addicted. That is how addiction works, ask anybody who was released from prison.
His life fell apart. His wife left him, he couldn’t think right, he could not keep a job. He was always sexually charged. Worst of all, he was always angry. The Meth. had a hold on him.
Mr. Jones now ex-wife worked at Goodfellow, AFB, Texas. He knew she was not at work because he had just talked to her on the phone. He drove around the AFB looking for the NCO club. It was Saturday night; he wanted some fun. He wanted to meet some of those good-looking AF women. He was high on meth and horny. As he drove by the base laundry-mat, he saw a beautiful, 19-year-old, petit, red head, doing her laundry. He marches in, grabs her by the hair and drags her out to his car. A male Airman sees the kidnaping and intervenes. Mr. Jones knocks him out.
Jones drives Army PVT Tracie McBride back to his apartment where he rapes her. The next morning, he drove her 23-miles into the desert and murdered her with a tire iron. Her body was recovered 12-days later.
The defense lawyers blamed PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome, and exposer to chemicals while in the Army. No, it was the Meth. 224 federally funded studies costing $212,000,000 (391,098,000-2022) have not found any kind of causal link between illnesses and service in the gulf.
At 0900 on March 18, 2003, the federal government executed Mr. Jones age 53.

1995-0615, Assault, at AFA POW Training.
As a result of POWs' experiences during Operation Desert Storm, sexual assault resistance was added to the Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE), curriculum. However, some of the training scenarios were taken too far by SERE cadet members at the academy during hands on portions of the training.
In 1995, the ABC news program 20/20 reported that as many as 24 male and female cadets in 1993 had been sexually assaulted at the Academy during SERE training. One of the cadets sued the government, which eventually settled for $3,000,000 (5,534,409-2022) in damages.
Because of the scandal, the SERE program at the Academy was reduced to the survival and evasion portions only and called Combat Survival Training (CST). All graduates going on to aircrew positions were then required to attend the resistance portion of the training at Fairchild AF Base before reporting to an operational flying unit. The CST program was discontinued entirely in 2004.

1995-0615, Gender, the Hand Grenade Problem.
Most women cannot throw a hand grenade farther than its bursting radius. Or are not strong enough to pull the pin unless the pin is bent straight first.
2000-0215, the Hand Grenade Problem X2.
“There is a problem here,” one of the male SFC range safety NCOs at a hand grenade range was telling the range OIC that female Soldiers were so frightened when they got to the live hand-grenade range that their hands were trembling and unable to pull the pin. There were 12- women and none of them could pull the pin. In basic training, the drill sergeants straighten the pins on hand grenades to make it easy to pull for women.

1995-0615, Gender, Wives Don’t Want their Husbands Sleeping with Female Soldiers.
Military wives whose husbands are deployed to Haiti complain about their husbands living in a tent with female Soldiers and no privacy barriers. Some wrote, "the shock of my husband sleeping in the same room with women morally outraged me.”
Military sociologist Charles Moskos, who was sent to study the issue in Haiti said, "Most female Soldiers are of mixed minds. The longer the deployment the more they want privacy but in the short term they like being with their colleagues.”

1995-0615, Drugs, COL in Charge of Drug Smuggling Smuggles Drugs.
In 1994 Laurie Hiett, wife of LTC James C. Hiett, 41, admitted to inpatient drug abuse treatment.
In 1998 the now COL Hiett is assigned as chief of staff US Mil Group Bogota, Columbia, he coordinates all counter drug efforts. COL Hiett is TDY often, his wife Laurie gets bored. She makes "close" friends with her driver, Jorge Ayalla, a Columbian, they visit bars in La Zona Rosa often, an off-limits area full of brothels.
They do cocaine together daily. She begins sending samples of cocaine and heroin to her old drug friends back in the USA. Jorge recommends she use her diplomatic immunity to smuggle large quantities of drugs into the USA, she agrees. She begins shipping 15-pounds of heroin and or cocaine back to the USA every 6-week. On May 23, 1999, a random search by drug sniffing dogs in Miami brings Laurie's business to an end. She is arrested COL Hiett was then transferred to Ft Monroe, VA.
2000-0417, COL Hiett pleads guilty: The Army COL who oversaw counterdrug operations in Colombia pleads guilty of misprision of a felony (the criminal failure to advise government officials as soon as possible that his wife was engaging in the crime of money laundering). COL James C. Hiett, 48, a SF officer was assigned to the US Military Group in Bogota. Hiett's wife Laurie, 36, pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine and heroin into the US from Columbia. COL Hiett stored $45,000 (83,016-2022) of the drug money in his office safe. Initially the COL Hiett was investigated by CID. CID did not recommend any charges. The US Customs Service and the NYC Police got involved and said they would prosecute him if the Army did not.
2000-0616, Laurie Hiett sentenced to 5-years in prison.
2000-0713, COL Hiett sentenced to 5-months in the Brig, in imposing the sentence US District Court Judge, Edward Korman called COL Hiett, "a traitor to his country.” Hiett pleaded guilty to using money from his wife's drug business to pay bills. COL Hiett had 25-years on Active-Duty; he will not receive retirement pay.
2000-0731, Many Call COL Hiett's sentence a slap on the wrist, "He got a great deal, only 5-months in prison, if COL Hiett had been MR. Hiett or SSG Hiett he would have gotten 25-years,” said Eric K. Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation in DC.
Author’s note: I was at Bragg while the Hiett family lived there. Laurie ran a call-girl service out of their home on COL’s row. I visited the downstairs area twice while COL Hiett was upstairs. I believe Laurie was married to a LTC she met in South America prior to her marriage to COL Hiett. She destroyed the first LTC’s career also. Please send details.

1995-0707, Fraternization, Army MP Bluffs His Way into Female Prison.
SGT David M Pecard, a US Army MP, arrested for sexual abuse of a prisoner. He is being held on $2,000,000 (3,689,606-2022) bonds at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department. Pecard, 34, claimed to be a DoD investigator and received the keys to the female confinement facility and a private office from Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Pecard offered Arpaio surplus Military gear if Sheriff Arapaio helped him investigate AWOL female Soldiers who might be confined. Pecard was able to check inmates in and out of the jail. He preferred threesomes and would usually take two-female prisoners into his "office" at a time.
Pecard was able to carry off his bluff for six-months and was only caught when he failed to provide any Military surplus gear as promised.

1996-0203, Accident, If You Work in the Personal Section (S1) Do Not Pick at Booby Traps.
This is a transcription of the text in the picture:
1. at approximately, 3:15 p.m. on Feb. 3, 1996, SFC Donald A. Dugan and another soldier are at the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Checkpoint. They leave the checkpoint and proceed on foot along the cleared route for approximately 200 meters passing two civilians collecting barbed wire.
2. They enter a known minefield and begin probing. The two soldiers discover a mine near the barricade and point it out to the civilians. Dugan cuts the trip wife of the ant-personnel mine.
3. Both men continue through the minefield and go behind the building to the southwest. The second soldier stays behind the building.
4. at approximately 3:35 p.m. Dugan returns to the mine and motions for the civilians to move away. Dugan kneels over the mine, and it is believed attempts to defuse it with a multipurpose hand tool. The resulting explosion kills him instantly.
5. The other soldier hears the explosion and runs toward Dugan. He sees Dugan lying face down and runs to the checkpoint to get help. at approximately 4:10 p.m., Dugan is evacuated by helicopter to the 112th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Zupanja Croatia where he is pronounced dead upon arrival.

1996-0308, Military, Enlisted Education.
HS 95.7-percent.
Some College 24.1-percent.
GED 4.3-percent.
Bachelor's Degree 3.6-percent.
This includes NCOs.

1996-0308, Military, Officer Education.
Bachelor's Degree 100-percent.
Masters 21.5-percent
Professional Degree 10.7-percent.