Stars and Stripes reported the Supreme Court rejected hearing the appeal of USAF Brig. Gen. Terryl Schwalier.  BG Schwalier asserted that he was being unfairly punished for his role in the June 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia killing 19 airmen.  The General was in command then and his second star had been confirmed by the Senate.  President Clinton pulled him from the two star list after the investigation found him at fault.

The General has a lot of chutzpah to pursue the promotion in my opinion.

Flash back to ‘91, my Infantry battalion was split between 20 man tents on a sandy spit and on cots in an open area warehouse at the Dammam port waiting for our Bradleys.  The Battalion was offered accommodations in Khobar Towers where one company had spent the night split among rooms.  After his first visit the BN commander declined and pulled the company out of the towers and put them with the rest of us because of security concerns and concern for a truck bomb like the Marines suffered in Beirut.

Maybe the Air Force’s cultural expectation of comfort over security had a role in the Khobar Towers bombing?