A former police chief was able to take postings at multiple successive U.S. Army bases despite allegations that he sexually harassed women at one base.
Each of the accused received a favorable plea deal from the Army allowing them to retire, and neither were convicted of a crime that would require sex offender registration in virtually any state.
U.S. officials haven't publicly said what weapon was used, but experts said a likely option was the highly secretive Hellfire R9X — know by various nicknames, like the “knife bomb."
More than 5,000 soldiers from the U.S., Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Singapore were participating in this year’s exercises, making them the largest since the drills were established in 2009.
A special prosecutor in Virginia says the former police officer should be investigated by the local U.S. Attorney’s Office for civil rights violations.
