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14th May 2021, 14:21
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About 40 members of the “No Mercy” 1st Battalion, led by Lt. Col. Matthew Fix, took part in the two-day trip to Gdansk. The unit, part of the 101st Airborne Division based out of Fort Campbell, Ky., was responsible for carrying out a wide range of missions during its nine-month rotation in Europe providing airpower along NATO’s eastern and southern flanks.
The Army 15-6, which was based on interviews with numerous soldiers, detailed the chain of events this way:
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At the end of the first day, the team gathered for dinner at The Legendary White Rabbit Saloon and celebrated their sergeant major’s 40th birthday. Some soldiers bounced between the White Rabbit and other establishments, including a karaoke bar. By the end of the evening, many were “heavily intoxicated” and returned to their hotels around midnight, the report said.
At that time, an unspecified number of soldiers, including battalion executive officer Maj. Matthew Conner, went to Club Obsession in Gdansk’s city center.
Reviews of the club by various online travel sites warn of a sketchy scene where drinks get spiked with narcotics and woozy patrons get scammed out of thousands of dollars.
A warrant officer told the Army’s investigator that during the ride back to Powidz, Poland, at the conclusion of the trip, Conner described the events at the strip club in similar terms. Fix, the battalion commander, was driving the car.
Conner said that he received multiple lap dances and that strippers “bit his nipples to keep him awake, and repeatedly had his credit card swiped,” the report stated. Conner then showed the soldiers in the car multiple receipts, which added up to 50,000 — it wasn’t clear whether the sum was in dollars or Polish zloty, which would amount to about $13,000.
Conner “also expressed a belief that the champagne he had been given at the club had been laced/drugged,” the report said.
Fix didn’t report to higher headquarters the suspected drugging of Conner, who was still sick the following day, the report said. None of the witnesses mentioned Fix attending the strip club, according to the investigation.Conner, a pilot, was “so severely impaired by the incident that he cancelled all of his flights for the next week because he ‘just did not feel right’ and it took days for him to feel normal again,” the report said.
Neither Fix nor Conner responded to requests for comment from Stars and Stripes.
It’s unclear how the night at the strip club ended, but by morning no one in the battalion knew where Conner was.
‘Lapses in judgment and leadership’After partying into the early morning hours, no one could make contact with Conner, who wasn’t in his room at the IBB Hotel Dlugi Targ, the investigation report said.
That’s when Fix and Sgt. Maj. Ronnie Winberry organized a search party, calling on all staff ride attendees to meet in the city center and retrace their steps from the night before.
“The group ultimately met up outside the Obsession Club, where MAJ Conner was allegedly last seen, to begin the re-tracing process,” the report said.
Eventually, Conner was found at a different hotel by Fix and Winberry. The team then completed an abbreviated version of their World War II battlefield tour.
In the weeks that followed, rumors circulated on social media as word of the trip spread through the unit about a visit to an “alleged sex dungeon” where tens of thousands of dollars were spent, the report said.
The staff ride proved to be “poorly planned,” with insufficient dialogue between Fix and 101st CAB boss Col. Travis Habhab “regarding risk to mission or force,” the investigator found.
There also were unaddressed health concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Not only is it questionable whether the purpose and intent of a (battalion staff ride) was met, but during the trip, multiple individuals exhibited lapses in judgment and leadership that are not expected of senior leaders in the Army,” the investigation stated.
Read it here, there is more.....
https://www.stripes.com/booze-a-strip-club-and-a-major-gone-missing-how-a-101st-airborne-unit-went-off-the-rails-in-poland-1.671169
About 40 members of the “No Mercy” 1st Battalion, led by Lt. Col. Matthew Fix, took part in the two-day trip to Gdansk. The unit, part of the 101st Airborne Division based out of Fort Campbell, Ky., was responsible for carrying out a wide range of missions during its nine-month rotation in Europe providing airpower along NATO’s eastern and southern flanks.
The Army 15-6, which was based on interviews with numerous soldiers, detailed the chain of events this way:
article continues below
At the end of the first day, the team gathered for dinner at The Legendary White Rabbit Saloon and celebrated their sergeant major’s 40th birthday. Some soldiers bounced between the White Rabbit and other establishments, including a karaoke bar. By the end of the evening, many were “heavily intoxicated” and returned to their hotels around midnight, the report said.
At that time, an unspecified number of soldiers, including battalion executive officer Maj. Matthew Conner, went to Club Obsession in Gdansk’s city center.
Reviews of the club by various online travel sites warn of a sketchy scene where drinks get spiked with narcotics and woozy patrons get scammed out of thousands of dollars.
A warrant officer told the Army’s investigator that during the ride back to Powidz, Poland, at the conclusion of the trip, Conner described the events at the strip club in similar terms. Fix, the battalion commander, was driving the car.
Conner said that he received multiple lap dances and that strippers “bit his nipples to keep him awake, and repeatedly had his credit card swiped,” the report stated. Conner then showed the soldiers in the car multiple receipts, which added up to 50,000 — it wasn’t clear whether the sum was in dollars or Polish zloty, which would amount to about $13,000.
Conner “also expressed a belief that the champagne he had been given at the club had been laced/drugged,” the report said.
Fix didn’t report to higher headquarters the suspected drugging of Conner, who was still sick the following day, the report said. None of the witnesses mentioned Fix attending the strip club, according to the investigation.Conner, a pilot, was “so severely impaired by the incident that he cancelled all of his flights for the next week because he ‘just did not feel right’ and it took days for him to feel normal again,” the report said.
Neither Fix nor Conner responded to requests for comment from Stars and Stripes.
It’s unclear how the night at the strip club ended, but by morning no one in the battalion knew where Conner was.
‘Lapses in judgment and leadership’After partying into the early morning hours, no one could make contact with Conner, who wasn’t in his room at the IBB Hotel Dlugi Targ, the investigation report said.
That’s when Fix and Sgt. Maj. Ronnie Winberry organized a search party, calling on all staff ride attendees to meet in the city center and retrace their steps from the night before.
“The group ultimately met up outside the Obsession Club, where MAJ Conner was allegedly last seen, to begin the re-tracing process,” the report said.
Eventually, Conner was found at a different hotel by Fix and Winberry. The team then completed an abbreviated version of their World War II battlefield tour.
In the weeks that followed, rumors circulated on social media as word of the trip spread through the unit about a visit to an “alleged sex dungeon” where tens of thousands of dollars were spent, the report said.
The staff ride proved to be “poorly planned,” with insufficient dialogue between Fix and 101st CAB boss Col. Travis Habhab “regarding risk to mission or force,” the investigator found.
There also were unaddressed health concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Not only is it questionable whether the purpose and intent of a (battalion staff ride) was met, but during the trip, multiple individuals exhibited lapses in judgment and leadership that are not expected of senior leaders in the Army,” the investigation stated.
Read it here, there is more.....
https://www.stripes.com/booze-a-strip-club-and-a-major-gone-missing-how-a-101st-airborne-unit-went-off-the-rails-in-poland-1.671169