Every cloud has a silver lining. You find your neighbour and colleague dead, with a self inflicted shot gun wound to the chest (best to make sure when you are trying this suicide carry on);and, on the plus side you get to take his job as a general at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
As for the deceased, he has had difficult time of it. Tinsley’s previous boss, Michael “Buzz” Mosely, had already resigned in the wake of the Minot Nukes incident.
Minot Air Force base has to deal with four unfortunate deaths of its own. So a bad year all round.
Suspected cause of death is self-inflicted gunshot wound in the chest
A top general at Elmendorf Air Force Base is dead.Officials say Brigadier General Thomas Tinsley was discovered with a fatal gunshot wound to his chest shortly after 10 Sunday night inside his home on Elmendorf. Read the rest of this entry »