Fired Air Force General Can't Keep His Nuclear Arsenal
Photo: Active Nuclear Arsenal Returned Along Bumpy Road in Outdated Truck with Poor Shocks
Friday, October 18, 2013
(SNN) - Recently relieved of command for “personal misbehavior,” a top U.S. Air Force general has been told he also has to return all the nuclear missiles he took home from work.
Maj. Gen Michael Carey, who oversaw the 20th Air Force, with a total of 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles, was fired after a month-long investigation by the inspector general into his behavior on a temporary assignment.
“It’s routine in such situations that officers turn in their work materials, including active case files, office supplies and, in this case, enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the moon,” according to an Air Force source.
A statement from the Air Force said that charges of misbehavior “are not related to operational readiness, inspection results, nor do they involve sexual misconduct.”
The statement made no mention of Carey’s personal stockpile of atomic weapons. However, “Who wouldn’t want to display a couple of these big beauties in their rec room?” noted U.S. Navy Cmdr. James “Tiberius” Tiberius, research historian with Jane’s Fighting Ships. “I mean, it’s not like he was sitting on the floor whackin’ ‘em with a hammer.
“He wasn’t whackin’ them with a hammer, right? Because that’s borderline dangerous.”
The firing follows the demotion of Vice Adm. Timothy Giardina, the No. 2-ranked official in charge of the Pentagon's nuclear forces, after accusations that he passed counterfeit poker chips at a Council Bluffs, Iowa casino.
In a game of Hold ‘em, Giardina allegedly lost nearly $1,500 in phony chips as well as two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to an orthopedic surgeon from Omaha.
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