Sordid details spill out in rare court-martial of a general on sex charges

[Jesus Malverde]

It was an illicit and volatile love affair that spanned two war zones and four countries. The married general couldn’t stay away from a captain on his staff. She fell hard for her boss and called him “Poppa Panda Sexy Pants.” The three-year entanglement ended disastrously for both, at a time that could not be worse for the Army.

All the raw and sordid details are spilling out in an austere military courthouse here, where the Army is girding — for only the third time in half a century — to court-martial one of its generals.

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The final straw came in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in March 2012. The captain was snooping through Sinclair’s e-mail in his office and discovered tender messages to his wife, as well as love notes to another female Army officer.

“I felt so stupid,” the captain testified. “I finally had something to slap me in the face and say, ‘See, he never loved you. He was just using you for sex.’ ”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sordid-details-spill-out-in-rare-court-martial-of-a-general/2013/08/14/f6c89c68-008d-11e3-a661-06a2955a5531_story_2.html

[pinboy3niner]

1. General Poppa Panda Sexy Pants better look for a new line of work. nt

[Shrike47]

2. Fox News expert commentator?

[aikoaiko]

3. ‘See, he never loved you. He was just using you for sex.’

[Jesus Malverde]

4. This has echos of the broadwell case...

By her own admission, she flew into a jealous rage. First, she fired off an e-mail to the other female officer, saying, “I hope you don’t think you’re the only girl that he’s sleeping with.”

Later that night, she burst into the office of Maj. Gen. James L. Huggins, then the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division and leader of all U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan. Tears streaming down her face, she spent two hours confessing to the affair, according to court testimony.

That set off a flurry of phone calls and e-mails among senior Army brass, who were stunned but immediately ordered a full investigation that eventually roped in more than 100 witnesses.

[kestrel91316]

7. In recent years I have found more happiness by both parties in my relationships

admitting right up front that it's all about sex and not about a commitment, lol.

[onethatcares]

5. at least it wasn't

another astronaut.

All kinds of things could have happened if that was the case.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Well, if nothing else, I have a new username to employ at some website!

When is the next DU name-change period?