On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:34:59 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote in
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Seems the one's that CAP picks for flight/training are more a matter of
politics than talent.

My experience with the CAP left the bitter taste of bureaucratic
politics in my mouth. It also raised concerns about military drug
running. Perhaps my intuition wasn't too far from the truth:


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...jet-bust_x.htm

Posted 4/14/2005 8:50 AM

Air Force jet was used for drug run, authorities say
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. military pilot and a sergeant were being
held on federal narcotics charges after admitting they flew an Air
Force jet from New York to Germany and returned with 290,000 pills
of Ecstasy worth millions of dollars, authorities said Wednesday.

Capt. Franklin Rodriguez, 35, and Master Sgt. John Fong, 36, were
arrested Tuesday when their cargo plane returned to Stewart Air
National Guard Base in Newburgh, about 40 miles north of New York
City.

The men were ordered held without bail at court appearances late
Wednesday. Jennifer Brown, a lawyer for Fong, declined to comment.
A lawyer for Rodriguez could not immediately be reached for
comment.

Rodriguez and Fong, members of the Air National Guard, allegedly
went to a hotel room in Germany and loaded packages of Ecstasy
into their personal luggage, the complaint alleged.

When they returned to Stewart, federal law enforcement agents
watched Fong load bags and boxes into a BMW registered to
Rodriguez, the complaint said.

Later, both men consented to interviews during which Rodriguez
admitted he had brought the drugs from Germany and had done so
before, eventually taking the drugs to his Bronx apartment for
distribution, the complaint said.

Fong admitted he brought pills on three other military flights and
that he was paid $10,000 a trip, the complaint said. ...