4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News
By: Jasper Craven for VTDigger, November 28, 2018 As the Vermont National Guard has struggled to recruit new members, leadership has purposely delayed the discharges of hundreds of enlisted personnel over several years in an effort to project a false sense of operational readiness, according to documents obtained by VTDigger. Officials believe this practice, in […]
4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News
By: Jasper Craven, November 27, 2018 Five years ago, on Oct. 28, 2013, Lt. Col. Christopher Caputo appeared before a special session of the Burlington City Council to oppose two resolutions that could have prevented or delayed assignment of the F-35 fighter jet to the Vermont Air Guard base. Dressed in his Air Force blues […]
4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News, Vermont National Guard Scandals
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 […]
4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News, Vermont National Guard Scandals
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 […]
4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News
By: Jasper Craven for VTDigger, August 13, 2018 When Gov. Phil Scott traveled to Washington on April 9 for a meeting at the Pentagon with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, the trip was not included on his public schedule, nor were there any indications his office had taken steps to publicize it. However, the following […]
4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, Activism, News
A letter dated July 27, 2018 and addressed to Lt Col. Roger Bourassa (Ret.)
2. Cost To Our Country, 4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption
By: Brian Khan 7/30/18 N 47.51575°, W 123.52133°—Amid the panoply of greenery that makes up the Hoh Rainforest, a gap in the old growth forest arises. Well, more accurately it’s a gap in a tree—a hollow inside a towering sitka spruce that stands like an open door. Beyond it, a short game trail through ankle […]
3. Technological Disaster, 4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News
By: Victoria Leoni and Kyle Rempfer for Air Force Times The much-anticipated A-10 vs. F-35 close-air support fly-off has wrapped up before many people even realized the tests were happening, but a government watchdog group claims the tests were rigged in favor the Lightning II, a fifth-generation multirole fighter. The Project On Government Oversight revealed […]
3. Technological Disaster, 4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News
By Joseph Trevithick July 10, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has, without any apparent public announcement, begun a much-awaited comparative evaluation of the close air support capabilities of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter versus the venerable A-10 Warthog. The event was already controversial before it even began and there is now evidence to suggest the […]
4. Military-Industrial-Political Corruption, News
June 26, 2018 By John W. Henderson, P.E. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment, and Energy) Dear Mr. Dorn: Thank you for your April 17, 2018 letter addressing the Air Force decision to base the F-35 at Burlington Air National Guard Base and sharing the South Burlington City Council resolution. The Secretary of […]