(McClatchy) All 500 members of the nation's land-based nuclear missile crew were to have retaken a proficiency test by Thursday evening in the wake of a scandal in which 34 Air Force officers are accused of having cheated on the text or of having failed to report cheaters.
The 34 officers, all of whom work at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, were decertified, had their security clearances suspended and can no longer work with the intercontinental ballistic missiles at the base.
"There was cheating that took place with respect to this particular test," Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told Pentagon reporters Wednesday. "Some officers did it. Others apparently knew about it, and it appears they did nothing, or at least not enough, to stop it or to report it. Now, this is absolutely unacceptable behavior, and it is completely contrary to our core values in the Air Force."
The test cheaters were discovered during an ongoing separate investigation into drug use, James said, and two of the cheaters have been implicated in that probe. Both probes are being conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation.
One airman used text messages to share answers to a monthly proficiency test with at least 16 other officers, and at least 17 additional officers knew about the cheating but did not report it, Gen. Mark Welsh, Air Force chief of staff, said.
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