This page contains articles revealing the sexual misconduct, corruption, internal threats, alcohol consumption, and otherwise explicit behavior of the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG). This includes senior officers responsible for the F-35 integration at Vermont’s Burlington International Airport.
By Elizabeth Gribkoff Mar 31, 2020 PFAS contamination has been found in groundwater and surface water — including a stretch of the Winooski River — near the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington. The findings come in a draft report released last week by the Guard on the extent of the contamination by […]
By Jasper Craven Feb 16, 2020 On Jan. 5, Col. David Shevchik Jr. took command of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing. A native Vermonter, Shevchik replaced Col. David Smith, who retired after more than 30 years in the organization. Shevchik was born in Springfield and grew up in Essex. He graduated from […]
By: Mark Johnson for VTDigger, December 20, 2018 WARREN — Gov. Phil Scott expressed support Thursday for the Legislature to investigate the Vermont National Guard and said he wanted policy changes, including more information being released if a Guard member resigns while under investigation. Scott said his own investigation or an outside review, an idea […]
By: Anne Galloway for VTDigger, December 16, 2018 Retired Adj. Gen. Martha Rainville led the Vermont National Guard from 1997 to 2006 and now lives in North Carolina, where VTDigger editor Anne Galloway reached her by phone last week. In response to a seven-part series VTDigger published about members of Guard leadership who were involved in sexual […]
By: Jasper Craven for VTDigger, December 14, 2018 Vermont lawmakers are discussing how to bring increased accountability and transparency to the Vermont National Guard in the wake of a six-month VTDigger investigation that revealed a toxic culture within the military organization. The lawmakers say constituents have expressed alarm over the reports, which outlined cases of misconduct stemming […]
By WCAX, December 9, 2018 ON “YOU CAN QUOTE ME,” BREAKING THE CYCLE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.VICTIMS SEEK ACCOUNTABILITY.WE’LL TELL YOU ABOUT A PROPOSAL TAKING JUSTICE OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM. A CAN 3 NEWS INVESTIGATION. PLUS, THE VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD UNDER FIRE. AS GUARD LEADERS AND THE GOVERNOR RESPOND TO ACCUSATIONS OF TOXIC BEHAVIOR, WE SPEAK WITH ONE OF THE WHISTLEBLOWERS. […]
By Darren Perron for WCAX, December 6, 2018 BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) The Vermont National Guard is under fire. As the Guard responds to accusations of toxic behavior, our Darren Perron spoke with one of the whistleblowers about why he came forward. “I know the Vermont National Guard as a whole is a great organization,” Lt. Col. […]
On MilitaryCorruption.com, November 30, 2018 Many years ago, there were TV commercials that said, “I’d walk a mile for a camel (cigarette).” When the Gulf War broke out, the sailors, soldiers and Marines had t-shirts created showing a camel in the cross-hairs of a rifle scope with the caption, “I traveled 10,000 miles to smoke […]
By Lisa Rathke for the Associate Press, published by Air Force Times, December 7, 2018 COLCHESTER, Vt. — The head of the Vermont National Guard on Thursday disputed the characterization of the Guard’s culture that was reported in a series of news articles that included allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct among some members. […]
By: Jack Thurston for NECN, December 6, 2018 Leadership of the Vermont National Guard reiterated a commitment Thursday to take seriously issues of sexual violence, alcohol use, and gender equality. The move follows bruising reports by an online news source that described allegations of serious culture problems within the Vermont Guard. “We are not a […]