4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption

By Jasper Craven for VTDigger, December 4, 2018 The New England chapter of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has commenced an investigation into the Williamstown Lutheran Church’s pastor, Calvin Kemp, who was the subject of a recent VTDigger report that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by Kemp in his role as a chaplain at the Vermont National Guard. […]

By: Jasper Craven for VTDigger, Dec. 2, 2018 From an early age, Heather King understood the challenges of being a woman in the military. Decades later, she said she faced the perils of working while female in the Vermont Air National Guard. King comes from a long line of military members. Her father was a […]

By Mark Johnson for VTDigger, Nov. 30, 2018 Gov. Phil Scott said Friday he was “concerned” about published reports of excessive drinking, sexual harassment of women and inflating troop numbers within the Vermont National Guard. At the same time, the governor announced the head of the Guard is leaving. Reacting to a six-month investigation by VTDigger, the […]

By: Jasper Craven for VTDigger, November 29, 2018 In the summer of 2013, members of the Vermont Air National Guard attended a week-long camp at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Huron. ir Guard Command Chief Brian Marchessault saw the deployment as a way to boost morale and […]

By Jasper Craven Nov. 26, 2018 On Jan. 4, 2014, a blue flag adorned with the image of an eagle was passed from the outgoing commander of the 158th Fighter Wing, Col. David Baczewski, to the new leader of the Vermont Air National Guard, Col. Thomas Jackman. Hundreds of airmen looked on as Jackman, a […]

By Jasper Craven, Mark Johnson and Anne Galloway Nov. 25, 2018 The storied history of the Vermont National Guard reaches back almost 250 years to the days of the Revolutionary War. Back then, the militia was known as the Green Mountain Boys. Today, the members of the Vermont National Guard still proudly call themselves by that same name. Their […]