Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civilian students numbered under 2,000, while the University had among its residents 5,000 military personnel preparing for war service...
...Holland case is only one in a catalog of little-known but horrific disasters detailed in a confidential report by Alan Diehl, the Air Force's former top civilian safety official. The litany -- obtained by TIME last week -- includes 30 cases of mangled military probes and cover-ups by "incompetents, charlatans and sycophants." Diehl charges that Air Force crash probes are routinely sabotaged by officers seeking to please superiors, hide culpability and avoid embarrassment. Accidents like Holland's, says Diehl, "suggest the all too familiar pattern of ignoring dangerous behavior of certain individuals, especially when they are well liked, regarded...
...says that "the U.S.A.F. major-mishap rate has increased by over 30% while the Navy and Army rates have decreased by 40% and 50%" over the past three years, not counting the five accidents that have killed 16 since April 17, including one last Friday. And there are potential civilian consequences. Last fall, Diehl reports, a pair of B-52s "narrowly missed colliding" with an airliner, an incident apparently "hushed up." Diehl writes, "This business, which has always been dangerous, has become unnecessarily deadly...
...disaster" because of the corroding integrity of Air Force crash investigations. "The investigative process," Brigadier General Joel Hall declared in a retirement letter to the Air Force's top officer, "has been politicized to the point of dysfunction." Some Air Force officials say Diehl was eased out as senior civilian at the Air Force Safety Agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and into a nearby Air Force testing job last October because of his views...
...served the Air Force well for many years." Nonetheless, there is a growing call for an independent Pentagon agency to investigate accidents. Safety expert Nance advocates a full-time professional staff dedicated to that mission. Pilots would play a key advisory role, as they do in probes of civilian airliner accidents. "The demonstrated reality is that we can't be trusted to investigate ourselves," says Nance. "Every accident in which people are hurt or killed is a lesson for which we pay in blood. The current system prevents these lessons being taught to future flyers...