AF Deserter found 35 years later in San Francisco

[Guest LumberjackAxe]

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/mysterious-disappearance-of-william-hughes-17351393.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

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In June 2018, US Department of State special agents traveled to Daly City on a passport fraud investigation to interview a man living as Barry Timothy O’Beirne.

“After being confronted with inconsistencies about his identity, the individual admitted his true name was William Howard Hughes Jr., and that he deserted from the U.S. Air Force in 1983,” the Air Force news release read.

Things must have been wild before the digital age, when you could just go start a new life somewhere even if you're a wanted criminal.

It also brings to mind this tragic story about the drone Captain who went AWOL and died in a shootout just north of San Francisco a few years back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html

[CaptainMorgan]

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/mysterious-disappearance-of-william-hughes-17351393.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

In June 2018, US Department of State special agents traveled to Daly City on a passport fraud investigation to interview a man living as Barry Timothy O’Beirne.
“After being confronted with inconsistencies about his identity, the individual admitted his true name was William Howard Hughes Jr., and that he deserted from the U.S. Air Force in 1983,” the Air Force news release read.

Things must have been wild before the digital age, when you could just go start a new life somewhere even if you're a wanted criminal.
It also brings to mind this tragic story about the drone Captain who went AWOL and died in a shootout just north of San Francisco a few years back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html

He didn’t die in a shootout.


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[M2]

On 8/8/2022 at 5:14 PM, LumberjackAxe said:

It also brings to mind this tragic story about the drone Captain who went AWOL and died in a shootout just north of San Francisco a few years back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html

Suicide...

https://mendovoice.com/2020/01/details-emerge-in-suicide-of-captain-kevin-larson/

And a little trick for subscription sites, disable the Java script, then refresh the page.  Voila! 

[Biff_T]

21 hours ago, LumberjackAxe said:

https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/mysterious-disappearance-of-william-hughes-17351393.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

KIKR does that to people.  

 

That dude is not going to recognize what the AF has become.  He's like a time capsule.  

[Biff_T]

Maybe he didn't want to do SOS?  

[08Dawg]

Man, part of me says…just let the dude live out his remaining days in peace. We’ve done without him for three decades. 

[guineapigfury]

3 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

Man, part of me says…just let the dude live out his remaining days in peace. We’ve done without him for three decades. 

This seems like we need a statute of limitations.

[HeyEng]

10 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

Man, part of me says…just let the dude live out his remaining days in peace. We’ve done without him for three decades. 

Part of me says… punish him for missing out on CBT training, reflective belts, DTS, the Sandbox, General Order #1, PT uniform, ABU’s, white then green then black then brown then sand T-shirts!

I’m probably missing a few things!

[Guardian]

Article 85.

Article 43 provides for a statute of limitations of five years for most offenses under the UCMJ. Under Article 43 (a), the statute of limitations may not apply during wartime. If the unauthorized absence began in peacetime, the five year statute of limitations will apply.

Google search. First return. I claim nothing regarding if it is actual or applies to this case.

[Biff_T]

23 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

Man, part of me says…just let the dude live out his remaining days in peace. We’ve done without him for three decades. 

I say we make him go to SOS in residence, after he does it in correspondence of course.

[CaptainMorgan]

Article 85.

Article 43 provides for a statute of limitations of five years for most offenses under the UCMJ. Under Article 43 (a), the statute of limitations may not apply during wartime. If the unauthorized absence began in peacetime, the five year statute of limitations will apply.

Google search. First return. I claim nothing regarding if it is actual or applies to this case.

5 years to charge him; they don’t need to have him in custody to charge him. Unless they thought he was missing presumed dead, I’m betting they would have gotten around to filing the paperwork.


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