Consider the Class A Felony convictions of enlisted folks versus officer
folks.

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multimillion dollar systems from aircraft to ICBMS are maintained extremely
well by the people you have insulted.

I think your reading my inputs here as an insult is telling.

Making broad statements as you would not trust anyone below E-6, GED and class
A felonies shows you are just plain predjudiced. Yes it takes a maintenance
officer to "ramrod" each flight, but that maintenance officer has to be able to
trust ALL the maintainers.

Why did I take offense? I find all bigotry offensive.

As for the class A felony thing you should know that the base commander's
office puts out a quarterly courtmartial/Article 15 list. Having seen that list
a few times I decided to make a rather unscientific study and found the per
capita courtmatial/Article 15 rate to be about the same.

Have you ever noticed the police blotters in base papers give enlisted ranks
but officers are listed as "an Air Force member" or some such? Granted the
police blotter never lists all offences, but you get the idea.

In the early 80s an enlisted member called the Eglin AFB base commander's
hotline asking why no officers were ever listed in the base paper as getting
Article 15s. He responded in the base paper that he did publish them in the
paper when they happened it had just been that no officers had received Article
15s in the recent past. He was a flat out liar. One of the 2 Article 15s given
to officers in the past quarter was a 1Lt friend of mine. Furthermore I had
seen the list for that quarter.

In short, you may not have heard of legal action taken against officers simply
because that information is covered up. I know of one captain who was allowed
to resign rather than face a courtmartial for DUI, resisting arrest, presenting
a false ID ( he had an enlisted man's) , conduct unbecoming etc("class A"
felonies). An enlisted man in a similar situation would have been raked across
the coals for exactly the same thing.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired