Report: Top Air Force Academy Officials To Leave
Exclusive Investigation By 7News Leads To Changes
POSTED: 8:29 a.m. MST March 19, 2003
UPDATED: 8:54 a.m. MST March 19, 2003
DENVER -- NBC News is reporting that the top two leaders
of the Air Force Academy will be ousted as early as next week.
The network cites unnamed sources in reporting that the school's
top two officials will leave next week. NBC says it's an effort
to clean house and make female cadets feel safer.
But Lieutenant Colonel Dewey Ford says Lieutenant General John
Dallager will retire this summer as planned, and that no other
personnel decisions have been made.
Air Force officials are expected to announce changes in how the
academy handles assault allegations at the end of the month.
Ford says issues at the academy predate the current leadership.
Dozens of cadets have said they were sexually assaulted at the
academy and then discouraged from reporting it.
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- March 18, 2003: Third Team To Investigate Air Force Academy Rape Scandal
- March 14, 2003: Air Force Has Not Court-Martialed For Cadet-On-Cadet Assaults
- March 12, 2003: Both Teams Of Investigators Now At AFA
- March 11, 2003: Report: Academy Cadets To Be Separated
- March 10, 2003: Bush 'Concerned' About AFA Rape Allegations
- March 10, 2003: Air Force Chief Of Staff: Female Cadets Are Safe Here
- March 6, 2003: Air Force Secretary: 54 Cases Of Rape, Assault, At AFA
- March 6, 2003: Top AFA Officers Must Go, Tancredo Says
- March 5, 2003: Air Force Investigative Team Returns To Springs
- March 4, 2003: Allard Hopes Air Force Investigation Not Just PR Move
- March 1, 2003: Air Force Family Betrayed After Daughter's Rape
- February 28, 2003: More AFA Victims Come Forward As Roche Speaks To Cadets
- February 27, 2003: Secretary Of Air Force Promises Change At AFA
- February 26, 2003: Senators, Chairman Call For Independent AFA Rape Investigation
- February 25, 2003: 3 Senators Ask For Independent Investigation Of AFA Rapes
- February 24, 2003: Air Force Opens Phone Line For Academy Rape Victims
- February 21, 2003: Allard May Ask For Senate Hearing Into AFA Rape Case
- February 20, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: Air Force Academy's Amnesty Clause
- February 18, 2003: Academy Superintendent Responds To 7NEWS' Rape Investigation
- February 17, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: Victims Of Academy Rapes Speak Up, Punished
- February 14, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: Rape Victims At Air Force Academy Afraid To Report
- February 13, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: Honor, Code, Betrayal At Air Force Academy
- February 11, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates Alleged Rapes At Air Force Academy
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