Airman who appeared in Playboy resigns

[cec]

Airman who appeared in Playboy resigns




By Patrick Winn - Staff Writer
Posted : Thursday Apr 5, 2007 18:49:39 EDT

Michelle Manhart, the former Air Force staff sergeant demoted for posing nude in February’s Playboy Magazine, has cut her last official military tie.
She was first reprimanded, later demoted from staff sergeant to senior airman and eventually dropped from active-duty enlistment. This bumped Manhart, now living in Texas, down to her previous post with the Iowa Air National Guard.
Now the Guard has accepted Manhart’s resignation. Effective April 5, she was granted an honorable discharge from the 132nd Fighter Wing for “her own convenience,” said Master Sgt. Duff McFadden of the Iowa National Guard.
“I feel like my life is finally in my own hands now,” Manhart said.
Manhart was stationed in Iowa from 2001 until 2005, when she started at San Antonio’s Lackland Air Force Base. The discharge prevents her from traveling four states away. She was supposed to report in mid-April to an office position in Camp Dodge, Iowa’s Joint Force Headquarters building
Manhart called her re-assignment to the Iowa Air National Guard “sabotage.” While her resignation was pending, Manhart tried to pull Iowa’s political and media strings to pressure the Guard. She contacted news outlets in the state, as well as Iowa representatives U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin and U.S. House Rep. Leonard Boswell.
Outside pressure wasn’t a factor in granting Manhart’s discharge, McFadden said.
Manhart, 30, is aggressively pursuing an entertainment career. She has two children with her husband, a Lackland-based airman.

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[Woodmonkey]

I think this is good for the military. She was in the wrong for posing in the nude with part of her uniform when she should have known better as a SSgt.

[cec]

You will notice that she is "aggressively pursuing an entertainment career". It doesn't say what type of entertainment.

[Woodmonkey]

True!

[Carnage_59]

Originally Posted by cec

You will notice that she is "aggressively pursuing an entertainment career". It doesn't say what type of entertainment.

Next thing you know she'll be doing a movie with John Bobbitt.

I'm glad she's out. I'm surprised she got an honorable discharge after having been nailed with Article 15. Normally a general discharge is given. I guess Iowa ANG didn't want the legal battle over it so they rolled over.

This whole situation does not do her husband's AF career much good. It will cost him a lot come EER time.

[Woodmonkey]

Originally Posted by Carnage_59

This whole situation does not do her husband's AF career much good. It will cost him a lot come EER time.

I don't think she's all that concerned about her husband's career. It seems to be all about her and what she wants - or did I miss something?