Airmen Face Trials for Government Travel Card Fraud

2ID soldiers may excel at taxi cab related incidents, but the airmen in Osan have quite a record of stupid crimes themselves. The latest is a pair of government travel card fraud cases:

Two airmen were sentenced in separate trials here Wednesday for putting thousands of dollars in wrongful charges on their government credit cards, officials said.

Senior Airman Duane Jones of the 51st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron was sentenced to reduction to the lowest military pay grade, E-1, and a bad conduct discharge from the Air Force. Jones, 33, had been in the Air Force six years.

A four-member jury found Jones guilty of putting $8,400 in unauthorized charges on his government travel card between January and December 2005.

Staff Sgt. Michael D. Glover of the 51st Communications Squadron received a court reprimand after pleading guilty to putting $4,200 in unauthorized charges on his government travel card between May 2005 and this February.

These guys are not the first and most assuredly will not be the last to commit government travel card fraud. I don’t know how they expected to get away with the crimes when the command has visibility over travel card purchases. I’m actually surprised they got away with it as long as they did.

Careers and lives ruined over a few thousand dollars.