If these allegations prove true, heads need to toll in the Air force. From the personnel involved to the command structure of the base where it occurred and was allowed to happen. It is totally unacceptable to me that something such as this occurred in August and the Air Force is just now learning about it and responding to it.
Stay tuned.....
The commander of the 37th Training Group at Lackland Air Force Base,
Texas, has launched an investigation into a photo of 15 airmen posing
with an open casket, in which another airman is posed with a noose
around his neck and chains across his body.
“Da Dumpt, Da Dumpt …. Sucks 2 Be U” is written under the photo, which was emailed to Air Force Times.
In the picture, tech sergeants and staff sergeants stand with junior
airmen surrounding the metallic casket, similar to those used to carry
war dead home to the U.S.
The purpose of the photo, its inscription and its intended audience
are not known. It surfaced one month after the public disclosure that
the Air Force’s Port Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, Del., had lost
and mishandled the remains of hundreds of fallen troops.
“I cannot help but picture the faces of my dead [soldiers] that we
drug out of burning vehicles, dug out from collapsed buildings,” Staff
Sgt. Elias Bonilla wrote in an email to Air Force Times.
Bonilla said the photo, together with the Dover revelations, made him
worry that he could not trust the Air Force with transporting the
remains of his men, especially because the photo included
noncommissioned officers.
“I cannot understand the behaviors of the United States Air Force,”
he wrote. “I refuse to accept that military personnel could be so far
removed from their own identity as a military unit to permit such
disgraceful conduct.”
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