Lewis-McChord court-martial finds C-17 pilot not guilty
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) - A C-17 pilot who was charged with dereliction of duty and reckless endangerment in a paratrooper's death has been found not guilty at his Air Force court-martial.
Staff Sgt. Frances Kriss says a panel of officers found Capt. Jared Foley not guilty of all charges Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The 17-year veteran could have faced more than two years in prison if convicted for approving an airdrop without command approval on July 10, 2011, at Fort Harrison's Marshall Field in Montana.
Sgt. Francis Campion of Holidaysburg, Pa., was blown off course and landed on a building outside the drop zone and died. Campion was training with the West Virginia National Guard.
Foley serves with the 62nd Airlift Wing at Lewis-McChord, which operates 51 of the C-17 transport jets.
Staff Sgt. Frances Kriss says a panel of officers found Capt. Jared Foley not guilty of all charges Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
The 17-year veteran could have faced more than two years in prison if convicted for approving an airdrop without command approval on July 10, 2011, at Fort Harrison's Marshall Field in Montana.
Sgt. Francis Campion of Holidaysburg, Pa., was blown off course and landed on a building outside the drop zone and died. Campion was training with the West Virginia National Guard.
Foley serves with the 62nd Airlift Wing at Lewis-McChord, which operates 51 of the C-17 transport jets.
Our government feels that the lives of the military are expendable - a necessary political consequence. Just build another memorial. If they are not killed, then bring'm home and without training to be a civilian again, cut'm loose. VA hospital A sick joke.
 @contraryjim  The VA hospital has nothing to do with this case. It is irrelevant!
@contraryjim
Based on your ignorant comment you evidently didn't follow the case, read the reports or understand what the pilot did during the incident?
 @contraryjim so you don't think those in charge of the lives of others, such as an aircraft commander, have any regard to human life?