Air Force Times: Lt. col. granted clemency in sex assault case to retire as major
The Air Force Times reports:
Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, the former Aviano Air Base, Italy, inspector general whose overturned sexual assault conviction triggered calls for change to long-standing military law, will retire Jan. 1 at the rank of major.
Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning approved Wilkerson’s retirement on Wednesday, Lt. Col. Laurel Tingley, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
Fanning “concluded that Wilkerson did not serve satisfactorily in the grade of lieutenant colonel,” Tingley said.
