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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Dec 10, 2012 15:17:08 GMT -5
Anyone know what happend here;
The Air Force is prosecuting a Joint Base Lewis-McChord pilot for a 2011 training accident that led to the death of a Special Forces paratrooper.
Capt. Jared Foley faces six months in prison for each of three counts of dereliction of duty and up to one year of confinement for another charge of reckless endangerment, according to an 18th Air Force spokesman.His court-martial is scheduled to begin Tuesday at Lewis-McChord.
Foley was the pilot of a C-17 Globemaster III during a daytime training exercise in Montana that went awry when parachutist Sgt. Francis Campion from the West Virginia National Guard landed outside a planned drop zone.[More] |
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Dec 14, 2012 13:43:56 GMT -5
And here's the pilot's sideof the story
The Joint Base Lewis-McChord pilot accused of dereliction of duty in the death of an Army paratrooper took to the witness stand Thursday to burnish his credentials as an experienced aviator and insist he believed he was following protocol when he approved what became a fatal airdrop.
Capt. Jared Foley, 37, maintained there was no reason to cancel that airdrop because five previous passes over the same Montana air field had gone well according to the measurements he was reading on his aircraft and guidance he received from soldiers on the ground.
"The drop-zone controller is telling me everything is good on the ground," Foley said.[/i]
[More here]It's been 37 years since I retired -- is it normal for an Air force Captain to be 37 years old, or has this guy been passsed over a couple of times? |
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Dec 15, 2012 11:00:09 GMT -5
End of story
A 10-officer court-martial panel on Friday found Joint Base Lewis-McChord pilot Capt. Jared Foley not guilty of dereliction of duty and reckless endangerment in the 2011 death of an Army paratrooper from the West Virginia National Guard.
Foley, 37, had faced 21/2 years in prison for approving an airdrop that led to the death of Sgt. Francis Campion, 31, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.
Foley closed his eyes and seemed to hold back tears when the colonel who led the court-martial panel read the verdict. Capt. Sarah Carlson, one of Foley's defense attorneys, could not stop from crying.[/i]
No More to be said....
He embraced a courtroom full of supporters, most of them Air Force officers in flight suits or brown leather jackets.
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Post by mcnoch on Dec 15, 2012 12:29:23 GMT -5
And what is your opinion about that?
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Post by Swampy on Dec 15, 2012 13:03:39 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe they were just giving support as friends.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2012 16:28:58 GMT -5
If he is a CPT at 37, either he entered service VERY late or he is nearly incompetent and I doubt it is the latter. Given what little I know of the situation, he should've been found not guilty.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Dec 16, 2012 8:14:15 GMT -5
And what is your opinion about that? If it is true as he said, thet the jump was cleared by ground personnel, he should have been found not guilty. They had a much better grasp of the conditions than he did. |
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