According to the reports, The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers have now been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their security clearance.
The allegations move toward later than some of the officers texted each other the answers to a monthly test gauging their understanding of how nuclear missiles are operated. Some may have known about the cheating, but failed to report it.
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a news conference, “There was cheating that took place with respect to this particular test. Some officers did it. Others apparently knew about it, and it appears that they did nothing, or at least not enough, to stop it or to report it,”
The cheating was found during an investigation into drug use involving 11 Air Force officers across six bases in the US and England. Of the three missile launch officers associated with the drug scandal, two serve at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana and one at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. The two officers at Malmstrom are also being investigated in the cheating scandal.
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told reporters, “This is absolutely unacceptable behavior and it is completely contrary to our core values in the Air Force and as everybody here knows the Number One core value for us is integrity,”
Approximately 190 officers oversee preparedness of US nuclear weapons systems, meaning the cheating scandal touches almost 20 percent of that force.
According to the Air Force all officers in the grasp will be re-tested by end of Thursday.
U.S: Nuclear Missile Launch Officers Caught Up In Dishonest Scandal
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