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NC: Walter Jones requests formal investigation of General Jim Amos
Via LH
……..one member of the House Armed Services Committee is calling for a formal Pentagon investigation. The request was made by Congressman Walter Jones, a Republican whose district in eastern North Carolina includes three Marine Corps installations. When Jones’ staff inquired with Marine Corps headquarters Friday, Marine officials responded with an email stating Amos did not attend TBS.
“As discussed, [Office of Legislative Affairs] informed me that Gen. Amos did not attend the Basic School in that he was an inter-service transfer from the Navy,” the email says. In follow-up conversations, Marine officials corrected that to say Amos completed TBS through a correspondence course in February 1977, but provided the congressman no documentation. Amos left the service one year later and served as a commercial airline pilot for Braniff Airlines until 1982.
Jones took issue with the fact that the official resume presented to Congress states Amos attended TBS in 1972.
“You just should not achieve a position based on falsehood,” Jones said. “When you are going before a [congressional] committee seeking the nomination for the highest position in the United States Marine Corps, you know that he read the information many times before he would sign it.”
Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/10/nc-walter-jones-requests-formal.html
