Admiral’s Tax-Paid Frolic Reported
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The commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific last year ordered the crew of his reconfigured Boeing 707 to fly him from his base in Hawaii to Miramar Air Naval Station, Calif., then left the plane and crew on the ground for three days while he took a three-day leave with a female Marine lieutenant colonel, according to a Defense Department inspector general’s report. Richard C. Macke, who became divorced during the time he was seeing the Marine, was forced into retirement in November 1995.
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