A military judge at Kirtland AFB, N.M., found A1C Corey Hudgins, assigned to the 58th Maintenance Squadron at Kirtland, guilty of sexually assaulting two female airmen on Kirtland, sentencing Hudgins to 11 years confinement, a dishonorable discharge, and reprimand, according to a Nov. 15 release. The charges included rape, forcible sodomy, and assault consummated by battery for crimes which occurred in 2011 and 2012. The court-martial took place Nov. 9.
While U.S. defense officials have spent much of the past decade warning that China is the nation’s pacing threat and its People’s Liberation Army represents an urgent threat in the Indo-Pacific, several defense researchers are skeptical that the PLA has the human capital, the structural ability, or the political appetite…