Airman charged after contraband investigation

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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) --  Officials have preferred charges against Maj. Gregory McMillion after an investigation found evidence he allegedly shipped contraband items here from an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment.

Major McMillion is assigned to the base’s 728th Air Control Squadron.

The suspected contraband includes Iraqi AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, Iraqi uniforms, rifles, knives and bayonets. These items were found last fall by 728th ACS Airmen unpacking mission equipment after their deployment.

The squadron was deployed for seven months to Baghdad International Airport and provided air battle management and theater command, control and communications for U.S. Central Command.

Major McMillion was charged with failing to obey a lawful general order and a lawful general regulation, failing to report and turn over captured or abandoned property, and dealing in captured or abandoned property. He was also charged with making false official statements, wrongful disposition of military property and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The charges are violations of Articles 92, 103, 107, 108 and 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Under military law, charges that have been preferred are merely accusations. The major is presumed innocent until and if proven guilty in a court of law, said 33rd Fighter Wing officials.