Hmmmm

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Friday, September 4, 2009 - 5:42 PM Share

A veteran Special Forces trainer, one-time Sgt. 1st Class Kelly Stewart, fluent in German and knowledgeable about evasion techniques, is convicted in Vilseck, Germany, of sexual assault and kidnapping, and then sent to a hotel room escorted only by a sleepy member of his unit? And the Army is surprised that he takes off and disappears in the black Audi Q5? (But he eventually saw the light and turned himself in. But apparently not before taking some poison that wound him up in intensive care at Walter Reed. This guy is out to beat the astronaut lady who wore Depends.)

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September 4, 2009

The Astronaut Lady

The astronaut lady who has yet to stand trial...

NASA fired her, but the Navy - always on the lookout for rising stars - keeps her on active duty ... ashore ... in a job normally assigned to stash ensigns. In the real world she'd have cleaned her desk out by day's end.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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