I think you can put this in the poor excuse department;
Former Navy Cmdr. Troy Amundson, right, is seen here speaking with members of the Philippine navy in Subic Bay in 2010.
In an email arranging to hand off proprietary Navy information to the flamboyant contractor Leonard Francis, Navy Cmdr. Troy Amundson described himself as “a small dog just trying to get a bone.”
Later that night, Francis procured the services of several prostitutes from Mongolia for Amundson, prosecutors say, just one in a string of bribes that Francis paid for leaked military data.
On Friday, Amundson was sentenced to 30 months in prison. He joins the ranks of more than a dozen other Navy officials whose military service is now tarnished with felony records for getting cozy with Francis in what has become the worst corruption scandal to hit the Navy in decades.
Amundson, a decorated combat pilot, told the judge that, at the time, he didn’t realize what he was doing was illegal. The ship schedules laying out port visits in Southeast Asia that he passed on to Francis weren’t classified and were regularly given to contractors, his lawyers said. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read more at the link, but like the judge in this case I find it hard to believe that this naval commander did not know accepting prostitutes in return for information was illegal.
When I was in Iraq there was this Mongolian girl working the Green Beans, I thought she was Korean, she was pretty hot. True story.
Mcgeehee
6 years ago
According to lore, the prettiest Koreans are of Mongolian descent.
That aside, after being in Iraq long enough, a bee hole in a tree would start to look pretty good.
Flyingsword
6 years ago
When I read the title I thought, why is the navy in Mongolia?
setnaffa
6 years ago
I really think there is a bit of a decline in the quality of Navy leadership lately.
I mean, given the terrain described, the Marines could have landed first…
And there are things that a shot can’t cure that make even decorated combat pilots lose more than a few numbers in the promotion racket.
ChickenHead
6 years ago
LIMERICK
The Navy boy took out his dongle
and stuck it deep in a Mongol.
He shared classified ports
and now docking of sorts
will happen right in his bong ‘ole.
guitard
6 years ago
When I was in Afghanistan, the girls at the barber shop were all from one of the ‘stans (Kyrgyzstan I think). They looked so Korean, that I was absolutely convinced that they were part of a group of Koreans who had been sent to that part of the world back in the 1930s. Everything about them looked Korean … face … figure … posture … the way they interacted with each other. I even tried speaking to them in Korean thinking that might jolt their memory from hearing their grandparents speaking Korean. But … nothing but a blank “WTF language was that” stare.
J6Junkie
6 years ago
They were probably Koryo-in that had settled in parts of Russia but banished to the harsh Stans territories during the 1930s. Saw a lot of them in Kazakhstan and their descendants. Some absolute stunners!
Hot Stuff
6 years ago
The Cmdr. Gave up information
In exchange for a sex vacation
Those Mongolian hoes
Put a curl in his toes
Now Leavenworth will be his next station
ChickenHead
6 years ago
He sent an email?
What a dummy.
Everyone know the standard operating procedure for passing off sensitive and classified data is to store it on a “homebrew server” and then get “hacked”.
Mcgeehee
6 years ago
…and they worked at the barber shop? 😎 What a coincidence.
When I was in Iraq there was this Mongolian girl working the Green Beans, I thought she was Korean, she was pretty hot. True story.
According to lore, the prettiest Koreans are of Mongolian descent.
That aside, after being in Iraq long enough, a bee hole in a tree would start to look pretty good.
When I read the title I thought, why is the navy in Mongolia?
I really think there is a bit of a decline in the quality of Navy leadership lately.
I mean, given the terrain described, the Marines could have landed first…
And there are things that a shot can’t cure that make even decorated combat pilots lose more than a few numbers in the promotion racket.
LIMERICK
The Navy boy took out his dongle
and stuck it deep in a Mongol.
He shared classified ports
and now docking of sorts
will happen right in his bong ‘ole.
When I was in Afghanistan, the girls at the barber shop were all from one of the ‘stans (Kyrgyzstan I think). They looked so Korean, that I was absolutely convinced that they were part of a group of Koreans who had been sent to that part of the world back in the 1930s. Everything about them looked Korean … face … figure … posture … the way they interacted with each other. I even tried speaking to them in Korean thinking that might jolt their memory from hearing their grandparents speaking Korean. But … nothing but a blank “WTF language was that” stare.
They were probably Koryo-in that had settled in parts of Russia but banished to the harsh Stans territories during the 1930s. Saw a lot of them in Kazakhstan and their descendants. Some absolute stunners!
The Cmdr. Gave up information
In exchange for a sex vacation
Those Mongolian hoes
Put a curl in his toes
Now Leavenworth will be his next station
He sent an email?
What a dummy.
Everyone know the standard operating procedure for passing off sensitive and classified data is to store it on a “homebrew server” and then get “hacked”.
…and they worked at the barber shop? 😎 What a coincidence.