Daily Mail: US soldier found guilty of cutting parachute chords to destroy three Humvees worth $660,000 during botched 2016 airdrop
* Sergeant John T. Skipper cut parachute chords before Humvees left the plane
* Three vehicles worth some $220,000 each plummeted down and hit ground
* Skipper was sentenced to a reduction in grade and a bad conduct discharge
An American soldier has been found guilty of deliberately destroying three armored Humvees by cutting the straps attaching them to their parachutes before they were dropped out of a plane during an airborne exercise.
A court martial on Wednesday convicted Sergeant John T. Skipper of three counts of destroying military property and one of lying during the official criminal investigation into the incident in Germany in April 2016.
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WNU Editor: He is lucky that he is not going to jail for a long time.
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Sergeant who sent 3 Humvees plummeting from plane found guilty -- Stars and Stripes
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3 comments:
Motive?
Motive was catching it on vid for his buddies. I find it extremely odd he got off so lightly. Friends in high places.
Did he get off easy?
He may well be one of these veterans we read about on the streets. Not all are PTSD or some other malady.
Some are there due to BCDs.
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