Captain Is Sentenced After Air Force Affairs
An Air Force captain will serve four months in a military jail after admitting to having sex with two enlisted women, one of whom he later married.
Capt. Douglas Bass pleaded guilty to lying to an investigator and disobeying orders to end his relationship with Krystal Carr, now his wife.
Bass pleaded guilty to nine counts of violating military law. After serving his four-month sentence, he will be dismissed, which his lawyer said is the equivalent, for an officer, of a dishonorable discharge.
Bass was the commanding officer over Carr and her first husband when the affair started in 1998, shortly after Carr’s husband was deployed to Saudi Arabia.
No disciplinary action has been taken against Carr.
Bass also had a relationship with an unidentified staff sergeant at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana before he met Carr. The woman wasn’t under his command.
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