General comment, regarding the General Officer:
In any circumstance, the Commandant was relieved and the case is closed as far as the public domain and USAFA is concerned . Leaders should lead and leaders should be principled. If this was a false charge, it will be adjudicated within the military legal system.
REFERENCE THE BELOW: For those of you that may be offended or think that I'm stating something not already in public records, slow your roll, it all is. This was the Greatest Administrative failure of senior leadership in the military in recent history!!!!
****YOU WANT TO BE DISGUSTED BEYOND BELIEF??? GOOGLE GEN WILLIAM "KIP" WARD DEMOTION. ****
"This dude was a 4 star CG of AFRICOM. What he did, and what happened to him, was a pure disgrace for the US military, to include the role that the CJCS, Gen Dempsey played . That's not an opinion, that's fact. If you have to pay back $80K and you're not charged under the UCMJ, that's grand larceny under any scale of justice! What's he doing now? He's a beltway Bandit! "Since retiring, Ward has served as President and
chief operating officer of the logistics, IT, and engineering business, Vectrus (aka SENTEL)."
Ward held the four-star grade of
general while serving as Commander, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), a "position of importance and responsibility" under
Title 10 of the United States Code Subtitle 601 (10 USC § 601).
[12] Ward was reduced in rank upon retirement by
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Ward's retired rank is that of lieutenant general which was determined to be the last rank in which he had satisfactorily served. "