The State - News from Oct. 21, 1986
An investigation into allegations of irregularities at the California Air National Guard’s Fresno base has ended with a finding that the charges were “flat untruths,” the guard’s top official in California, Brig. Gen. Harold R. Hall, said . The base’s former commander, retired Brig. Gen. Edward R. Aguiar, and a pilot, Maj. Nelson Sebra, had said there were unreported accidents, falsified repair records, over-stressed airplanes, flights in bad weather and gross mismanagement at the base. But, according to Hall, an investigatory team of senior officers found “there is no reason to be concerned about the present management of the 144th (Fighter-Interceptor Wing).
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