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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Attorney: Officer pushes no jail for Bergdahl
TOP 20 UNT SALARIES
Of the 4,496 people on the payroll at the University of North Texas cam-
pus in Denton, 385 full-time employees earn $100,000 per year or more.
Another 1,549 faculty and staff members earn more than Denton’s average
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annual salaries, as of Oct. 8:
By Will Weissert
Associated Press
AUSTIN — An Army officer
is recommending that Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl face a lower-level
court martial and be spared the
possibility of jail time for leaving
his post in Afghanistan, his law-
yer said Saturday.
Defense attorney Eugene Fi-
dell said Lt. Col. Mark Visger has
decided Bergdahl’s case should
go to a military system similar to
civilian courts that handle mis-
demeanor charges. It limits the
maximum punishment to re-
duction of rank, a bad conduct
discharge and a short jail term,
though that isn’t being sought,
Fidell said.
Military prosecutors charged
Bergdahl in March with deser-
tion and misbehavior before the
enemy, a charge that could carry
a maximum penalty of life im-
prisonment.
Bergdahl was captured by
the Taliban after leaving his post
on June 30,2009, and held until
last year, when he was ex-
changed for five Taliban com-
manders.
His commanding officers in
Afghanistan say a 45-day search
for Bergdahl put soldiers in dan-
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1. Dan McCarney, football coach
2. Neal Smatresk, president
3. Tony Benford, men’s basketball coach
4. Finley Graves, provost
5. Constantinos Tsatsoulis, dean of engineering
6. Richard Villarreal, athletic director
7. Richard Dixon, biology professor
8. Victor Prybutok, associate dean of business
9. David Wolf, vice president for advancement
10. Marilyn Wiley, dean of business
11. Robert Brown, vice president for finance
12. Thomas McCoy, vice president for research
13. Shannon Goodman, vice president for enrollment
14. Yong Xin Tao, engineering department chair
15. Carol Frost, accounting professor
16. Lewis Taylor, management department chair
17. Art Goven, biology department chair
18. Mary Curtis, accounting professor
19. Elizabeth With, vice president of student development
20. Warren Burggren, biology professor
Annual salary
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$505,000
$374,850
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$242,378
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$228,924
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.
the defense team is “grateful for
the balanced, judicious, and hu-
mane approach you have taken
to this complex case, and for the
evenhanded way you conducted
the public hearing.”
It added that Visger’s report
should be made public “so the
American people can be fully in-
formed of your findings.”
“The pity is, there’s no reason
for not having transparency,” Fi-
dell said Saturday, adding that
Bergdahl’s defense team
planned to file a written appeal
next week seeking to have the
full report released.
“It’s a self-inflicted wound for
the Army.”
and called him a “no-good trai-
tor,” which he also said in Au-
gust.
mitted a report with his recom-
mendation on Monday, but the
Army hadn’t said what Visger
recommended.
Gen. Robert Abrams, the
commanding general of U.S. Ar-
my Forces Command, will ulti-
mately decide whether the case
should be referred to a court-
martial. No timeline has been
given for a decision from
Abrams.
“These are highly discretion-
ary matters and, needless to say,
I hope General Abrams does the
right thing, but it’s his call,” Fi-
dell said by phone Saturday.
Fidell released a memoran-
dum addressed to Visger. It said
Companies eyeing
oil patch by drone
Paul Boyce, a spokesman for
the U.S. Army’s Force Com-
mand, released a statement Sat-
urday that didn’t confirm Visg-
er’s decision.
ger.
The Obama administration’s
prisoner swap was sharply crit-
icized by many Republicans and
some Democrats, who said it
was politically motivated and
counter to the U.S. policy
against negotiating with terror-
“There’s the potential for the
use of UAS to spot oil spills and
things of that nature,” Hendrix
said. “There’s a lot of tremendous
applications of UAS.”
For the oil and gas industry, Joe
Henry of Camber Corp., which
works with A&M-Corpus Christi’s
UAS center, said the facilities best
suited for drone use — with obvi-
ous cost and safety benefits — are
industrial plants. Some facilities
shut down as many as 26 times per
year for inspections, he said, each
time building and then tearing
down scaffolding at great expense.
“Just imagine reducing the
cost of raising scaffolding and
tearing down scaffolding and hav-
ing to shut the plant down for
those inspections,” Henry said.
The idea of inspecting and
monitoring with drones is new,
though Henry noted that compa-
nies will look at drones as a way to
save money. “None ofthis is defined
yet,” Henry said ‘You can look at
ffie cost of oil They’re looking at
how to reduce cost and let money
flow into ffie bottom line.”
For now, drones are not al-
lowed to operate beyond ffie line
of sight, usually about 1 mile, Phil-
lips said, and their use requires a
pilot and a visual observer.
Midstream Integrity’s drones
can shoot video that will send a
live feed back to ffie ground.
Point-and-shoot cameras can be
used to stitch images together af-
terward to measure things such
as distance and structures, or dy-
ing vegetation that can indicate a
problem with a pipeline or piece
of equipment. An infrared image
can show things such as ffie
health of plants, through ffie level
of chlorophyl in them. Laser
methane detectors, which mea-
sure reflected energy, can tell how
much methane is in ffie air. Phil-
lips said that it could be possible
to take air samples while flying.
‘As legal action is ongoing,
we continue to maintain careful
respect for ffie military-judicial
process, the rights of ffie ac-
cused, and ensuring ffie case’s
fairness and impartiality,” Boyce
said.
By Jennifer Hiller
San Antonio Express-News
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - At a
South Texas ranch, a drone
mounted with cameras flew
above and around a flare stack
that burned natural gas.
Live, high-definition images
were transmitted back to ffie
ground, where company officials
watched video of ffie flare stack as
it was operating, asking that ffie
drone move this way or that to get
a better image or different angle.
It’s a scene that played out re-
cently, and it may become more
common. Although drones are in
their commercial infancy, their use
in ffie oil field is on ffie increase.
In ffie case of ffie South Texas
flare stack, a drone from San An-
tonio-based Midstream Integrity
Services helped a client check its
flare stack while avoiding a shut-
down of equipment. “They could
see what they needed to order to
replace in ffie future,” said Landon
Phillips, program manager for
unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
at Midstream Integrity Services.
“The image is very stable, and we
can look straight down into
equipment while it’s operating.”
Jerry Hendrix, executive di-
rector of ffie Lone Star Un-
manned Aircraft Systems Center
of Excellence & Innovation at Tex-
as A&M University-Corpus
Christy told ffie San Antonio Ex-
press-News that Texas is a natural
fit for drone use and research, and
it’s not just ffie oil industry
looking at how to use drones.
Hundreds of companies and in-
dustries are looking into drones
for inspection and monitoring of
things such as railroad tracks,
bridges, wind turbines, utility
lines or agricultural fields. Drones
can monitor red tide on ffie coast-
line, or might be used by first re-
sponders after a natural disaster
such as a hurricane.
ists.
presidential
front-runner Donald Trump
said Thursday that Bergdahl
should have been executed for
leaving his post in Afghanistan
Republican
Visger presided over last
month’s Article 32 hearing in
Texas that reviewed evidence
against Bergdahl. Visger sub-
Video shows officer grabbing student's throat
ROUND ROCK (AP) - A
14-year-old high school student
says a school resource officer
used excessive force when he
grabbed ffie teen by the throat
after the student and another
boy were involved in a scuffle at
a Texas high school cafeteria.
A cellphone video taken
Thursday by a third student
shows the officer placing his
hands around sophomore Gyasi
Hughes’ throat at Round Rock
High School and taking Hughes
to ffie ground. The video was
given to Austin television sta-
tions, including KEYE-TV.
Hughes, who was suspended
for fighting but not charged, told
KEYE-TV that ffie officer also
pushed him.
Hughes’ father, Kashka, told
KXAN-TV in Austin that what
happened was “unacceptable”
His father said he lectured
his son on how to resolve con-
flicts without resorting to vio-
lence.
and that he plans to seek charges
against ffie officer, who has not
been identified.
“The police officer that was
actually in this particular situa-
tion, he should have been
trained well enough to know
that this is a 130-pound child
and that the action that was tak-
en was totally unnecessary” the
elder Hughes said. The family
didn’t immediately return mes-
sages from The Associated Press
on Saturday.
Round Rock police said in a
statement that a school adminis-
trator was unable to stop ffie two
students from fighting and was
forced to have police intervene.
The officers were trying to
calm Hughes and walk him to
another part of the building, but
the teen tried to circumvent ffie
officers and continue ffie fight
with ffie other student, accord-
ing to ffie statement.
“Officers were forced to de-
tain him for his safety and ffie
safety of others,” police said, also
noting that ffie incident is “un-
der review.”
The family said ffie alterca-
tion was over prescription ath-
letic eyewear that ffie younger
Hughes had asked a friend to
hold for him but didn’t return.
Gyasi Hughes told KXAN-
TV that he later apologized to
the officer for yelling at him.
“All of my family are teachers,
my mother is a teacher, my fa-
ther is a principal and was a su-
perintendent for a long time be-
fore he retired,” Kashka Hughes
said.
“I’ve definitely seen how ffie
guards in the schools as well as
how my dad handled various sit-
uations when kids were in cer-
tain altercations.”
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