USAF Maj Gen Michael Carey, fired in October 2013, as US Commander of America's ICBMs, for embarrassments in Moscow in July 2013.
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USN Vice Admiral Tim Giardina (center) also fired from job as Deputy Head, US Strategic Command, in October 2013, for gambling habit. At right is Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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This website concentrates on submarines, missiles and also nuclear weapons. The security of nuclear weapons is of course crucial. Much concentration is placed on physical security and also personal security of those being hired into nuclear weapons jobs. A US security blind spot appears to exist in the personal conduct of senior nuclear weapons commanders as the following reveals.
The now former US Commander of America's land based nuclear missile (ICBM) forces USAF Maj Gen Michael Carey was reported drunk and overly talkative to Russian women for days in Moscow in July 2013. More detail has become public since late 2013 reports, Carey was fired in October 2013. Carey's indiscretions included "Despite those concerns, Carey also socialized into the late hours with a female clerk from a hotel cigar store who likewise raised eyebrows. “A tobacco store lady talking about physics in the wee hours of the morning doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,”" See http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/report-us-air-force-general-drank-too-much-fraternized-with-foreign-women-in-moscow/2013/12/19/7f3cdba0-68ed-11e3-a0b9-249bbb34602c_story.html
Another nuclear weapons commander, USN Vice Adm Tim Giardina, was also fired in October 2013. "In October, two days before Gen Carey was sacked, US Navy Vice-Adm Tim Giardina was removed as deputy head of US Strategic Command. He was accused of using counterfeit gambling chips of "a significant monetary amount" at an Iowa casino."http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25460660 .
While politicians are not exposed for such things the conduct of such highly trusted officials is dangerous.
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