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   From: kmiller@onceapilot.com   
      
   The Obama faggots are going after all the upper echelon command   
   officers.  Just like they did in Roman times.   
      
   The Air Force has fired one of its most senior officers after an   
   investigation into whether he had an affair with a married   
   female officer found that they had exchanged emails that were   
   "sexually suggestive."   
      
   Lt. Gen. John Hesterman was removed from his position as Air   
   Force assistance vice chief of staff, service spokeswoman Anne   
   Stefenek said Tuesday. Hesterman previously served as the   
   commander of Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT), leading the   
   early days of the U.S. air war against the Islamic State   
   militant group while deployed at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar from   
   July 2013 to last June.   
      
   The investigation was launched after an anonymous complaint was   
   lodged with the Air Force inspector general last August that   
   Hesterman had carried on an inappropriate and unprofessional   
   relationship and meddled inappropriately in the assignments of   
   the woman's husband, who himself also was at least an Air Force   
   colonel. The husband alleged to the Air Force that a   
   relationship dated back to at least 2007, when Hesterman was a   
   married one-star general and commander of the 48th Fighter Wing,   
   which flies F-15 jets out of England.   
      
   Hesterman, who could be reached for comment Thursday night, also   
   surprised people by saying at the ceremony when the husband was   
   promoted to colonel that he had "married the girl we were all in   
   love with," the husband alleged.   
      
   Hesterman denied that any sexual relationship took place, but   
   emails that were entered into the eventual divorce proceedings   
   between the female officer and her husband were examined by the   
   inspector general. They alone were enough to end the career of a   
   seasoned general who earned valor awards for flying in combat   
   and participated in the opening night of operations in the   
   Persian Gulf war.   
      
   In one email string dated late March and early April 2010, he   
   and the woman, then a lieutenant colonel, exchanged a series of   
   messages in which he called the woman "Gorgeous" and said he was   
   visiting Hawaii before deploying to Qatar, where he served as   
   the deputy commander of AFCENT from July 2010 to June 2011.   
      
   "In Waikiki for. . . spring break and last big trip before   
   Qatar. . . thinking of you often here. . . we would love it. . .   
   and you would be in perpetual trouble ;) xxx"   
      
   A few months later on Valentine's Day weekend, Hesterman emailed   
   her and said he missed her.   
      
   "My dear and so beautiful. . .. On this Valentine's Day, please   
   know I am thinking of you. . . I miss you and hope you are happy   
   and well. Much Love, J." Hesterman continued corresponding on   
   April 4, 2011, calling her "my lovely Girl," sprinkling in   
   numerous emoticons and saying that he wanted to see her when he   
   returned to Washington after his deployment.   
      
   "This place has been fascinating if a tad relentless, I've been   
   at work every day but 3 in the last 9 months. . . I've at least   
   gotten into very good shape, even a little a definition. . . you   
   should check ;)," he wrote. "I'm really happy you'll be living   
   close by. . . I think of you more than you know (you get in   
   trouble a lot:) I would so love to see you."   
      
   The inspector general's report said the emails were found by the   
   husband, and the woman confirmed they were real under   
   questioning during the divorce proceedings, which the report   
   characterized as contentious. She said that she had never been   
   unfaithful to him in any way, but her husband had.   
      
   The inspector general found that Hesterman engaged in an   
   unprofessional relationship with a subordinate officer and   
   demonstrated conduct unbecoming of an officer.   
      
   "The language used by Lt Gen Hesterman goes far beyond a   
   mentorship scenario and is sexually suggestive in places and   
   romantic in other places," the report said. "In engaging in such   
   email exchanges, Lt Gen Hesterman violated [Air Force rules]   
   because he adversely affected the Air Force, helped dissolve a   
   marriage between two members, eroded good order, discipline, and   
   respect for authority, and these exchanges indicate an   
   abandonment of Air Force goals for personal interests. . .   
      
   "Simply put, Lt Gen Hesternan's emails to [the woman] -- two   
   officers, both married but not to each other -- are sexually   
   suggestive and indicate a strong desire to be with her in a   
   romantic way," the report adds.   
      
   Stefanek said Thursday that the case was referred to Gen. David   
   Goldfein, the Air Force vice chief of staff. Goldfein issued   
   Hesterman a letter of reprimand, and Hesterman relinquished his   
   position and submitted paperwork for his retirement.   
      
   Goldfein has launched an officer grade determination process   
   that will decide whether Hesterman gets to retire as a three-   
   star general or something less. The military often retires   
   officers at the last rank at which they served satisfactorily.   
      
   http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sexually-suggestive-relationship-   
   ends-career-of-air-force-general-who-ran-air-war-1288394   
          
      
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