Word: flinn
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...Monday, Flinn and her lawyers submitted a request to resign in lieu of a court-martial on the condition that it be an honorable discharge. The petition was rushed up the Air Force chain of command in three days, lightning speed in the military bureaucracy for such a request. On Tuesday, Widnall put the Flinn court-martial on hold while she considered the request. An honorable discharge was out of the question; there would be practically a mutiny in the senior officer corps if she allowed such blatant favoritism for an officer charged with these offenses. In private with Widnall...
...Flinn leaves the service with a stigma on her service record. By military definition, a general discharge is given to someone whose "service has been honest and faithful," according to military regulations, but when "significant negative aspects of the member's conduct or performance of duty outweigh positive aspects of the member's military record." Since she is resigning so soon after graduation, Flinn will have to repay about 20% of the cost of her Air Force Academy education, or about...
...final chapters of the Kelly Flinn saga, Air Force officials went to great lengths to suggest they were not engaged in an airborne rewrite of The Scarlet Letter. The issue of infidelity may have dominated the drama's coverage, but as Air Force spokesman Joseph LaMarca insists, "Adultery is the least important charge in this whole case. There were significant breaches of official conduct," including disobeying a direct order...
Perhaps so. But for the public and its elected representatives, the issue with which Flinn launched her publicity blitz was the one that commandeered the imagination. Citizens who couldn't bridge the ever widening distance between the mores of the civilian world and those of the military, bombarded call-in shows with invocations of the right to keep the government out of the bedroom. In fact, the Air Force, in its treatment of Flinn's transgressions and its prosecution of adultery courts-martial, may be more nuanced than it originally got credit for. But unlike the Army and Navy...
...nature of the adultery investigations. The Air Force's office of special investigations observes a kind of "Don't ask, don't tell" policy: it will not look into a case until someone--usually the cheated-on spouse--calls attention to it. But once activated, the OSI, as Flinn discovered, is very, very thorough, researching such items as foreplay, favorite positions and birth control. Relatives have learned for the first time of their loved one's infidelities from investigators inquiring about his or her sexual habits. In one such instance, reported in the Washington Post, the 78-year-old mother...