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Space Force official kept job after IG investigated sex toys at work

 

It began with a pair of sparkly pants.

 

Around the time he became director of the Pentagon’s Space Security and Defense Program in 2013, Andrew Cox received a framed pair of tight, silver pants as a gag gift. He hung the glittery jeans behind his office door with a note: “Break here in the event of an emergency.”

 

He occasionally joked that the pants could seduce Washington officials into giving SSDP more funding.

 

At a workplace holiday party a few years later, Cox received a silver case filled with sex toys and other paraphernalia. And in 2018, the high-ranking civilian donned a “mankini” — over his clothes — that he was given at the office’s “Bad Santa” party, in front of several dozen SSDP employees and their families.

 

The mankini made at least one other appearance at the office.

 

“It was chartreuse green, and he brought it out into the main area,” one person said of the strappy, skimpy bathing suit popularized by the 2006 film “Borat.” “He [told us he] put it on in front of his wife and bent over and said, ‘Honey, how do you like this?’”

 

The incidents fueled an Air Force inspector general investigation into Cox’s workplace antics in late 2020. Though the six-month inquiry substantiated multiple claims of unprofessional behavior and misconduct, Cox remained a senior civilian employee in the Space Force, with an annual six-figure salary. He also started overseeing a new unit focused on space combat planning.

 

Cox became the inaugural head of the Space Force’s new Space Warfighting Analysis Center in April 2021, the same month the inspector general released the investigation report internally. Air Force Times obtained a redacted copy of the report Wednesday.

 

“Mr. Cox remains the director of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center,” Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek said Friday. “The matter was addressed through established civilian personnel processes.”

 

Cox entered government service in 1997, according to his official biography. He rose through various military and intelligence community positions to become the head of SSDP’s predecessor unit, the Space Protection Program, in 2011. The organization became SSDP in 2013.

 

The inspector general’s office also looked into claims that Frank Di Pentino, SSDP’s director of advanced concepts, tactics and wargames, was complicit in Cox’s behavior, but found no evidence to back up those allegations. He was dropped as a subject in January 2021.

 

Employees interviewed by the Inspector General’s Office described Cox as a technically brilliant, collaborative thinker who asks “some of the best questions … of any leader in the Space Force.” Still, they said, SSDP became like a frat house.

 

“He has a leadership style where he likes to bring everybody in, kind of take the problem apart … and have lots of people in the room,” one complainant said. “When he’s not talking business, [he] is … acting like a 13-year-old boy.”

 

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The 42-Year-Old Airman: Air Force and Space Force Raise Max Age for Active-Duty Recruits

 

Under a new policy change, active-duty Air Force and Space Force applicants can join up to the age of 42 -- meaning the services are now willing to take the oldest recruits out of all the Department of Defense military branches.

 

A screenshot of a notice to all air missions, which was first posted on the Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page where airmen share inside information, read "the entry age limit has changed from 39 to 42." Leslie Brown, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Recruiting Service, confirmed the memo's information to Military.com and said the policy went into effect Tuesday.

 

"The Air Force made this change to align with [Department of Defense] policy," Brown told Military.com on Thursday. "This opens the aperture to allow more Americans the opportunity to serve."

 

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