Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III accepted all of the recommendations of an independent review commission that stood up in March and delivered its findings just last week. The commission recommended an array of changes in how the defense department and the services that fall under it will handle sexual assaults.
“On my first full day as secretary of defense, I committed that we must do more as a department to counter the scourge of sexual assault and sexual harassment in our military,” wrote Austin in a memorandum published today. “As I stated then this is a leadership issue and we will lead.”
As a follow-on article to my one on Morris Jessup – namely, on the subject of a mysterious death in Ufology – I thought I would share with you another account. It concerns the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal. For years, rumors have circulated suggesting that Forrestal’s death may not have been an accident or a suicide, but nothing less than murder. The reason? Some say he knew too many UFO secrets and was about to reveal “the truth” when his life was taken. May 22, 1949 was the date on which Forrestal died. Specifically at 1:50 a.m. As will quickly become apparent, the circumstances surrounding Forrestal’s final hours are swamped in controversy. All that we know with absolute certainty is that in the early hours of the 22