Fired Air Force wing commander charged with sexual assault, cruelty

Agreed. The higher the rank, the more the victim is scrutinized. I remember an O6 commander saying he had zero tolerance for domestic violence. In 2006 female Airman with a handprint on her arm filed for divorce from her aircrew abusive husband, and the O6 shielded him. She ended up having to go to mandatory counseling when he had a history of fooling around, getting drunk, and starting fights on every trip.
I remember back in the day when I was a young Airman (1997) and a girl was sexually assaulted. Leadership started grumbling that maybe she should dress more conservatively. I spoke up that their thinking was unprofessional and inappropriate.
In 2006 I thought we were past those days. Here I thought we were past those days again. Now I realize it's absolutely a leadership issue. On a deployment in 2016, I went as a 1Sgt - we had zero sexual assault/harassment/etc issues in our unit. An IG came in to interview people to find out if it was really true, and mostly WHY. It was because from the top down, we didn't tolerate anyone hurting our own. If there was a complaint or suspicion, the Commander immediately assigned someone (usually me), and I tracked down every angle I could find. (On top of "normal" duties!) It was the least amount of sleep ever in the military, but it turned out to be worth it. All my guys and gals knew I would stand beside them and sometimes that can make all the difference. They were a mix of different services, units: ANG, AF Reserve, active AF, Army NG, active Army, units from all over the world - yet the message AND follow thru, follow thru, follow thru from leadership was the #1 important thing that kept 200+ ppl together.

If charges were preferred then they have a reasonable suspicion he actually did it.

I'm not so sure...I once was charged with losing a Top Secret, code word message, despite three people of equal or senior rank seeing it after I 'lost' it. Only by threatening (in a round about way) to go to the NIS was I able to prevent being sent to mast after being screamed at in XOI. It was then that I finally made up my mind that I would never wear khaki in the Navy and I took the ROAD route...I did my job, but no extra's, never volunteered again, kept quiet and in the back of the room, never gave my opinion or made suggestions and didn't serve as LPO unless actually given an order to do it.

If the accounts are proven, I hope he gets a BCD and is booted out without a pension. Too many have been allowed to retire when serous crimes have been committed.

He should not. But we all know there are two versions of the UCMJ. So what we would be hammered on by the same man above normally would get him a slap on the wrist by his superior.

I didn't know we had a mess kit repair unit here in Alaska. That would be a great assignment!! JK.