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Letters Letters@Afa.Org Letters [email protected] It Happens Force) on the other side of the base. Now, have shown the power that supposedly Secretary of Defense Hagel an­ I don’t propose that we go back to the mature male MTIs have over females, nounced support to change the UCMJ days of the WAF, but I agree with General that doesn’t mean without adequate to strip convening authorities of their Iosue that we do need to separate the oversight and supervision it can’t be ability to modify findings of a court­martial guys and gals at that critical stage in controlled. [“Air Force World: UCMJ Changes Rec- their military experience. The marines I don’t know if General Iosue’s state­ ommended,” June, p. 18]. Hagel said, still do, and we don’t hear about such ment that “very few cases of sexual as­ “These changes ... would help ensure assaults from them. sault” during his tenure was because of that our military justice system works I also do not believe separating the a magic bullet or luck, but I can assure fairly, ensures due process, and is ac­ sexes in basic will have a deleterious you I also seldom heard of any during countable.” Of course, the Secretary is effect on their training as they will that period. directly implying that the current process fight. They can be trained together in CMSgt. Lou Georgieff, does not work fairly. All of this stems from tech school. But I do believe that we USAF (Ret.) political agenda fallout over Lieutenant should never, ever have male [training San Antonio General Franklin’s decision to set aside instructors] responsible for female basic and dismiss a wrongful conviction of an trainees. This is a most critical time for Verbatim Aviano lieutenant colonel. Has no one many young women coming into a totally I was more than a little surprised by in the political arena ever heard of a new and different environment. They are the title “More Dreck from Headquarters” false accusation or wrongful conviction? extremely vulnerable at that stage of [“Verbatim,” June, p. 25], third column. Have they never heard of the Innocence training and for them to have a male TI The title implies that AFA’s position is Project? (Google Brian Banks.) Just is an absolute recipe for disaster. And, that the Air Force’s desire to provide a as in the civilian world, sometimes the as the general said, we can find more nonhostile workplace within the Air Force services get it wrong and convict the women to be TIs for the young women for non­Christians has no value. Even wrong guy. In fact, the Air Force’s own coming into our Air Force. worse, why choose a Yiddish­derived study said that as many as 45 percent Col. Frank Alfter, term to express AFA’s disdain for the goal of all sexual assault accusations may USAF (Ret.) of allowing non­Christians to help defend be false. The Justice Department found Beavercreek, Ohio our country without being harassed by 25 percent of rape cases they revisited their comrades? with the ability to test DNA evidence I was a military training instructor I inherited my Air Force Magazine convicted the wrong man. Even if the rate (MTI) at basic military training (BMT), subscription from my father­in­law who is as low as women’s advocacy groups Lackland AFB, Tex., from 1969 to 1973 navigated B­17s for a full set of missions claim (two to eight percent), some men and from 1974 to 1976. I then was as­ over Europe in World War II. I am trying are wrongfully convicted. Ignoring that signed to the then­ATC NCO Academy to imagine his outrage at the implication fact and changing the UCMJ does not at Lackland until 1981. that if his co­religionists want to serve in help real victims and it hurts our military. General Iosue is correct, in my opin­ the Air Force they ought to be subjected Political pressure is no reason to send ion, that the short separation of BMT to pressure to change religious views by innocent people to prison. These are between males and females shouldn’t the people around them. American service members. They de­ affect their careers, as they have to be I understand that some people feel serve the truth, not a witch hunt. For the assimilated during either tech school or a religious obligation to proselytize, but most part, the system works fairly, Mr. into direct duty. perhaps the welfare of the nation would Secretary, including the review process As far as female training instructors, be better served if they focus their activi­ by the convening authority. Politically do what happened during the Vietnam ties on civilians rather than the military motivated changes don’t help. War: involuntarily (draft) cross­train Col. Bob Harvey, them. I served with draftees that hated Do you have a comment about a USAF (Ret.) BMT duty and did just enough to get current article in the magazine? Cocoa, Fla. their tour over. Some were more prone Write to “Letters,” Air Force Mag­ to mistreatment of trainees than others. a­­­­­zine, 1501 Lee Highway, Ar­ More Women to Train More Women Some got to enjoy it and requested a lington, VA 22209­1198. (E­mail: I wholeheartedly agree with General follow­up tour, as they liked the stability. [email protected].) Letters should Iosue’s comment in the June issue of Air One USAF policy I strongly disagree be concise and timely. We cannot Force Magazine, “Letters” section [p. 6]. with—and I made it clear when I was an acknowledge receipt of letters. I am not familiar with the statistics, but MTI—was allowing anyone with under We reserve the right to condense I believe, as the general said, we had four years of service and not at least a letters. Letters without name and very few cases of sexual assault when staff sergeant to be an MTI, especially city/base and state are not accept­ I went through [basic military training] in if it’s a male training females. I strongly able. Photographs can­­not be used late summer 1969. We were separated believe mature NCOs will make better or returned.—the editors back then, with the WAF (Women’s Air instructors. Even though recent cases 6 AIR FORCE Magazine / August 2013 comrades who depend on their support of mistakes on p. 108 of the May 2013 commanding general of the Air Force and trust. issue (“Leaders Through the Years”). Combat Command. I hope to see an apology for the title The page notes “Army Air Service” War Department Circular 59, issued in the next issue of Air Force Magazine. and “Army Air Corps,” but those are not on March 2, 1942, further reorganized Also, thank you for highlighting the the correct terms. The correct terms are the War Department. It established Black Hawk helicopter in the Angel “Air Service” and “Air Corps.” three commands, the Army Air Forces, Thunder article. I have been Sikorsky’s The Air Service, American Expedi- the Army Ground Forces, and the Ser- UH-60M requirements manager since tionary Forces, came into being on Sept. vices of Supply. At the same time, the 2001. It is gratifying to see our products 3, 1917, with the appointment of Brig. Air Corps and the Air Force Combat being put to good use. Gen. William L. Kenly as its first chief. Command effectively ceased to exist Steven E. Zalesch On Aug. 28, 1918, Mr. John D. Ryan as functional branches of the Army Air New Haven, Conn. became Director of Air Service, and Forces, and there was no more Chiefs he was replaced by General Charles T. of the Air Corps. Sheer Breadth, Really? Menoher on Jan. 2, 1919. The National Another congressional statute, the In “US Airpower in Africa” the author Defense Act of 1920 provided congres- National Security Act of 1947, estab- asserts that “the sheer breadth of the sional authorization for the Air Service. lished the Department of the Air Force (African) landmass explains why ... The Air Corps Act of 1926 established and the United States Air Force. there was no US military response the Air Corps. Because it was part of the Daniel L. Haulman force able” to save Ambassador Ste- US Army, people sometimes referred Air Force Historical Research vens and the three other Americans to it as the “Army Air Corps,” as did a Agency killed in Benghazi [June, p. 50]. Firstly, popular song, but it was technically the Maxwell AFB, Ala. whether or not a US military response Air Corps. could have reached Benghazi in time to On June 20, 1941, the War Depart- Return to Willow Run help is very much in dispute. Secondly, ment reorganized its air arm, creating I just read the article in the June is- Benghazi is on the Mediterranean coast, the Army Air Forces. The Air Corps sue titled “Roosevelt Builds the Arsenal” and the “sheer breadth” of the African became a subordinate organization [p. 56]. Having visited the Willow Run landmass would seem to have little to to the Army Air Forces, as did the Air bomber plant many times, I am very do with whether or not help could have Force Combat Command. The Air Corps familiar with the plant and its history. arrived from Italy or other area locations. was responsible for service functions, The photo of the B-24s under assembly MSgt. Bill Brockman, while the Air Force Combat Command was taken in an adjacent hangar that USAF (Ret.) was responsible for combat functions.
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