Is this the son, or the nephew of LDS apostle David B Haight? Looks like he was acting out his hidden desire of polygamy?

Any cheating on his wife shows poor character and morals. I don't know that he should be demoted for that. But he shouldn't be trusted. If he were unmarried or his wife consented, I don't see a problem. I think that they feared that he could he blackmailed. His best defense against that arguement is to go as public as possible with the story himself now. It's hard to show that someone can be shamed if they dispplay no shame on their own. But either way it probably won't work.

Adultery is illegal under the UCMJ.

...which he well knew. He took a gamble and lost.

he is the son of apostle David Haight

No, he's not.

http://universe.byu.edu/2012/12/04/col-haight-2/

According to this artice, he's only a "distant" relative of the apostle Haight.

The elder Haight was born in 1906 - 110 years ago - and was only married once. His children would be at least in their 70s or 80s at this point.

I posted about this a few months ago. My husband and I live in Stuttgart and he was the director of EUCOM.

well that is nice, but the good old LDS Inc funded Olympic bid bribery scandal for the 2002 Utah ( MORmON) olympics was the one so blatant that it forced me to dump MORmONISM, so that one will always be my favorite ......even if I periodically sleep with other ones !

I just read on two other sites that he graduated from BYU, and that he is a distant relative of the apostle.



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This was well covered on RfM when it first happened.

The suicide of General Rossi is what's a little strange.

He offs himself days before he gets a 3rd star, without any known family problems.

I am more worried about generals spreading fake news.

I am more worried about morally compromised generals spreading authentic news (information) carelessly, or worse--to hostile actors.

It's bad enough to let Mormon royalty off the hook in Utah for such shenanigans, but Haight was screwing up in the big REAL world, where consequences for malfeasance are international and very serious. Those in the highest level command are not, it seems, taking any chances or giving any slack after the David Patraeus scandal. At least, I hope not.



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He got busted down to Lt. Colonel, a big fall. Will cost him 40K a year in pension payout. But, I'm betting that he still has his TR.

Lindbergh was a colonel in the reserves who was eventually promoted to general. He had a long term on/off relationship with a German woman and had several children by her. This wasn't known until after he died.

Roosevelt died in the arms of his mistress.

Reporters looked the other way back then.

It's a different world now.



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so should reporters look the other way ?

I think the turning point on the press's* willing silence was JFK and all his mistresses. Perhaps they just couldn't believe or deal with the fact that a glamorous guy with such a gorgeous, classy wife could be such a shameless womanizers.

Then there's WJC...

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does the name Michael Flynn ring a bell ?