I’ve been following this case to see if we’d every really know what happened and what the Air Force would do about it. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone in the Air Force and their take on this. Here’s the latest……..

By Cliff Kincaid and Andy Selepak

Air Force Major Jill Metzger is an attractive blonde, 34-year-old newlywed and two-time Air Force Marathon winner who was reportedly abducted by thugs in Kyrgyzstan last September. She surfaced three days later and returned home. She said she overpowered her abductors and escaped. But local media in Kyrgyzstan claimed that she had been procuring an abortion. Her case has been under seemingly endless investigation by the FBI and U.S. military authorities.

In a major development, Militarycorruption.com reported on Tuesday in a copyrighted, exclusive investigative report that Metzger was being quietly retired July 2 on a “disability” pension. Retired U.S. Army Major Glenn MacDonald, editor-in-chief of the website, said this favorable treatment is an outrage that reflects political correctness and fear of feminism in the highest reaches of the Pentagon.

Media Cover-Up

The major media ignored MacDonald’s charges. Then, suddenly, an Associated Press story appeared, saying that Metzger was going on a voluntary leave of absence from the military. The AP reported that “Maj. Jill Metzger’s 18-month leave will start next month, said her mother, Jeannette Metzger.” MacDonald calls it disinformation and a diversion from the truth about what happened in this highly sensational case.

MacDonald’s website reported that there is no such thing as an “18-month leave of absence” for an active duty member and there is no military regulation that will allow it. “We telephoned numerous Air Force personnel and administration people to get their opinion on this and were told there is no regulation that allows that,” MacDonald said.

He also told AIM, “I am personally incensed by Air Force Times, which had a copy of our investigative article on Metzger, yet ignored our copyrighted and exclusive story and published an Associated Press dispatch containing erroneous information on Metzger that they knew was wrong. They froze us out. If that isn’t censorship, what is?”

MacDonald said that he telephoned an editor Wednesday to alert him that the content of the AP report was wrong and misleading, but that as of Thursday afternoon, Air Force Times was still featuring that misinformation as the lead story on its online edition.

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