A retired Brigadier General for the United States Air Force has been arrested for what police assert was a series of child sex crimes.

• On Saturday, May 11th, 69-year-old Mike Houston McClendon of Sulphur Springs, Texas, was booked into the Hopkins County Jail for the continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, according to Hopkins County judicial records.

• A probable cause affidavit stated that a Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputy first encountered McClendon during a routine traffic stop. McClendon was then identified as a suspect in an ongoing police investigation for a sexual assault against a young child.

• McClendon agreed to return to the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office to undergo interrogation. McClendon was arrested and transferred to the County Jail. He has since been released. An affidavit for the crime lists the date of his alleged offenses as Jan. 1, 2014.  

Finer details: McClendon appears to be no ordinary child rape suspect. A cursory glance into the perp’s background reveals an illustrious career as a decorated Brigadier General for the US Air Force.

• According to a biography maintained by the U.S. Air Force, McClendon graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975 and was a pilot in Tactical Air Command. He later joined a special group that introduced the A-10 Warthog into the U.S. Air Forces in Europe.

• General McClendon is credited with having flown more than 10,000 hours across 35 different types of aircraft, including helicopters, fighter jets, and transports. He’s currently a pilot for a major airline and retired from the Armed Forces in 2009.

• For his service to the American Empire, McClendon was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal for “exceptionally meritorious conduct” during the Global War on Terror.

Why it’s important: The ongoing trend of US military personnel implicated in abhorrent crimes presents a direct threat to US power and prestige and comes amid numerous global crises that threaten the established order.

• In April, retired US Navy Commander Bruce Coval Meneley was justifiably shot dead by uniformed police after he attempted to draw a handgun during a sanctioned pedophile bust in Seattle, Washington. Meneley—who was attempting to meet two underage girls for sex—was credited as having led medical efforts at the United States infamous Guantanamo Bay prison camp and served under Bush and Obama.

• In 2014, a retired Sergeant Major for the US Army was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl. The pedophile, identified as John Joseph Sixta, was the top enlisted leader of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the War in Iraq and was featured as a prominent character in the HBO series Generation Kill.

• Just this week, a Black United States Marine was apprehended by federal agents after it came to light he was planning an anti-White race massacre in his home state of New Jersey. According to reports, the Black man—identified as 23-year-old Joshua Cobb—planned to smuggle weapons and “erase” as many White people as he could from a local gym and grocery store.

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