Air Force General Faces Courts Martial

[John6185]

Just me, but I don’t see it as a military issue unless the complaining party was also military.

It is because it is conduct unbecoming an officer. I remember when I was in an E-6 pushed his wife out of his car doing around 70 MPH and she was killed. Those were the days when if someone committed a crime they could retire in lieu of Courts Martial-he retired. They since changed the rules.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

It is because it is conduct unbecoming an officer. I remember when I was in an E-6 pushed his wife out of his car doing around 70 MPH and she was killed. Those were the days when if someone committed a crime they could retire in lieu of Courts Martial-he retired. They since changed the rules.

I would think that incident would earn some prison time, not just retirement.

 

[John6185]

Thomas Gnau, Springfield News-Sun, Ohio
Sat, April 23, 2022, 9:09 AM


Apr. 23—A military judge found Air Force Maj. Gen. William Cooley guilty of one charge after six days of an historic court-martial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Air Force Judge Col. Christina Jimenez deliberated for five hours Friday before recessing for the day. The verdict was pronounced Saturday morning.
The charge of abusive sexual contact had three specifications involving how the two-star general was alleged to have touched the complainant — forcing his tongue in her mouth, forcing her hand to his genitals and pushing his hand between her legs and cupping her breast, according to an Air Force charge sheet.
A former commander of Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Cooley was charged with abusive sexual contact in an encounter with his sister-in-law inside a Jeep when she gave him a ride after a family backyard barbecue in a New Mexico off-duty incident nearly four years ago.
he complainant in the case, the wife of Cooley's brother, is a civilian woman who is not a Department of Defense employee. Cooley's brother works for the Air Force in New Mexico as a civilian employee.

Cooley faces loss of rank, pay and benefits and up to 21 months of confinement. And he may have to register as a sexual offender.

This is the first time a court-martial of an Air Force general reached trial.

Gen. Arnold Bunch, commander of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson, fired Cooley from the AFRL job in January 2020 after an Air Force investigation. Cooley has worked as an assistant to Bunch in an administrative job since then.

No jury was empaneled in the trial, which started Monday morning.

Maj. Gen. William Cooley guilty of one of three sexual ...​

 

[John6185]

Here's one that didn't receive a Courts Martial but was hit heavy duty...

Air Force busts retired four-star general down two ranks ...​

 

[John6185]

They let Cooley know what awaits him, they didn't hit him too hard after all.
Ex-AFRL commander sentenced in court-martial at Wright-Patterson

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Slap on the wrist is all this is. He should have been busted to E nothing, loss of all pay and benefits, confined and then dismissed from service.

 

[John6185]

Slap on the wrist is all this is. He should have been busted to E nothing, loss of all pay and benefits, confined and then dismissed from service.

If he had been enlisted, they would have reduced him in grade to slick sleeve, loss of all pay and benefits and sentenced him to a federal pen in Kansas.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

If he had been enlisted, they would have reduced him in grade to slick sleeve, loss of all pay and benefits and sentenced him to a federal pen in Kansas.

Very true!

 

[MilitantBEEMER]

I never realized a 2 star General made that much money. Nearly $190k a year. Not opposed to it, just never realized.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

I never realized a 2 star General made that much money. Nearly $190k a year. Not opposed to it, just never realized.

Thats just his base pay, still need to add in BAH, BAS, CONUS COLA, Specialty Pay, and others. Probably closer to 200-250K a year.