Navy Career Counselor included prostitution ring?

Discharged Navy Sailor Worked as Career Counselor While Running Prostitution Ring

Stars and Stripes
By Rose L. Thayer
2 Jan 2019

As a Navy counselor, Joseph Fetterman was tasked with mentoring young enlisted sailors at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City. At the same time, Fetterman was enhancing his military pay with cash flow from a prostitution ring that he and his wife operated -- using women flown in from Thailand. (Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office photo)

As a Navy counselor, Joseph Fetterman was tasked with mentoring young enlisted sailors at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City. For at least four years, the petty officer 1st class spent his days at the base helping sailors map out their career paths, plan for retirement and weigh their options for rate changes.

But during at least his final year in that job, Fetterman, 35, was enhancing his military pay with cash flow from a prostitution ring that he and his wife, Kanyarat, operated using women flown to America from Thailand, according to documents released by the Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office.
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Military tries to stem suicides at Tinker Air Force Base

Military tries to stem high number of suicides among personnel
An analysis released by the Pentagon in June found suicide now to be the second-leading cause of death among troops following combat. Military officials are working to stanch that trend.
By Phillip O'Connor
Published: September 24, 2012

David M. Walker II enjoyed motorcycles and getting muddy, but also was a “momma's boy,” who told his mother that he was never too big to sit on her lap.

According to the state medical examiner's office, Walker hanged himself.

Walker's death is part of a troubling surge in the number of suicides by military members that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently characterized as an “epidemic.”

An analysis released by the Pentagon in June found suicide now to be the second-leading cause of death among troops following combat.

“All of us, and frankly for that matter all Americans, have to always support and care for those who have stepped forward to defend our country in uniform,” Panetta said in a recent speech on the issue.

“We are a family, and by God we have to take care of our family members.”

Walker's was the second suicide this year at Tinker. In March, Baanh Dinh, 24, shot his wife, Priscilla Dinh-Kittelson, in an apparent murder-suicide. Both were active duty Air Force members stationed at Tinker.
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Sgt. Dustin Thorson, Hero's Actions Stun Tinker Air Force Base

Iraq War Hero's Actions Stun Tinker Air Force Base, Attorney
Augie Frost


The Oklahoman (Oklahoma)

Feb 28, 2008

February 27, 2008 - Oklahoma - Dustin Thorson was a decorated war veteran and community leader the day he killed his two children and turned the gun on himself at his home on Tinker Air Force Base.

The U.S. Army honored Thorson in 2006 with the Joint Commendation Medal for aiding coalition forces in capturing the No. 10 most wanted terrorist in Iraq, according to a Nov. 22, 2006, issue of Tinker Take Off, the base newspaper.

His military career, status in the community and a lot of other things ended Monday with him lying dead in the same bedroom as his two children, ages 9 and 4.

All had suffered gunshot wounds to their heads.

The children had also been shot in the chest and died instantly, officials said.

"Am I surprised? Absolutely,” said Thorson's attorney, Matthew Tate Wise. "His thing is, he made it over and over again that he loved his kids. He's done all kinds of amazing things for the military, so that makes it even more unbelievable.”

Identified in the newspaper as an Air Force technical sergeant, Thorson's computer skills helped find the wanted terrorist in Iraq by hacking into computers, cell phones and other electronic devices.

He was assigned to the 752nd Communications Squadron, but was sent to Iraq and was embedded with the U.S. Army's 172nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division operating out of Baghdad, the newspaper said.

He initially shipped to Iraq to fix computers and printers, but was reassigned as a communications specialist to an Army warfare group because of his ability to hack into enemy communication devices, the newspaper said.

His transition from an Air Force technical guru into an embedded assignment with the Army led to him being nicknamed "Sponge Bob,” for his ability to soak up knowledge from his new comrades in the Army, the newspaper said.

Thorson helped track the terrorist by tracing a cell phone.
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Tinker Air Force responds to Sgt. Thorson murder/suicide

Feb. 28, 2008

Tinker seeks ways to help ease stress
By Augie Frost and Ken Raymond
Staff Writers

There are unique aspects of being in the military that may lead to health issues, particularly mentally, Lt. Col. David Parr said Wednesday.

From moving frequently to being deployed overseas, there are added stresses on a service member that can lead to problems, said Parr, commander of the Operations Support Squadron.

Officials at Tinker Air Force Base held a roundtable discussion on mental health issues in the military Wednesday, two days after Tech Sgt. Dustin Thorson killed his two children and then himself.

During a separate news conference Wednesday, Air Force Brig. Gen. Lori J. Robinson said Thorson saw a mental health professional and his commander was monitoring his mental health. She did not elaborate.

At the roundtable, officials focused on services to check, balance and treat mental illnesses. Before someone is deployed he or she goes through a screening. When he or she returns, they again go through a screening and then another one 90 days later, Parr said.

Often times that stress is taken out in the home on family members, but the goal is to alleviate that. Tinker officials would not discuss particulars concerning Thorson and his family, but said they never want to be faced with that problem.

"We don't want it to get to that point,” said Jane Allen, director of the Air Wing Family Support Center.

Airmen who may be suffering from depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder have a wealth of options for treatment, Allen said.
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Airman kills his 2 kids then self

Divorced US Air Force computer expert kills his 2 young children, himself at base housing
The Associated Press
Published: February 27, 2008
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Oklahoma: A recently divorced airman who served with distinction in Iraq chased his ex-wife out of military housing with a pistol before killing his two young children and himself.

Tinker Air Force Base officials on Wednesday identified Tech. Sgt. Dustin Thorson, a military computer expert, as the killer in the shootings Monday.

His former wife had filed an order of protection against him last year, saying he had threatened to kill 4-year-old Dylan and 9-year-old Jourdain if she filed for divorce.

Thorson had been under the care of a mental health professional, Brig. Gen. Lori Robinson said. She would not say whether his mental problems were related to stress from his crumbling marriage or his experiences in Iraq.

Armed with a 9 mm Ruger semiautomatic pistol and a stun gun, Thorson, 35, chased his ex-wife, Michelle Thorson, out of the house before shooting his children and committing suicide, Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel said.

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