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Delta Force’s Dirty Secret
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:04 pm
She accused a Special Forces operative of rape. He was quietly court-martialed and acquitted. Then the Army erased all record of the trial testimony. Now she demands answers
By Seth Harp:
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By Seth Harp:
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For Erin Scanlon, a junior Army officer in the artillery branch, Fort Bragg was a prime posting. The blond 25-year-old from suburban Phoenix had secured a lieutenant’s slot in the storied 82nd Airborne Division thanks to the good offices of one of her ROTC instructors at the University of Arizona. “He was a really good mentor that I looked up to,” she tells me recently. “He had been in Delta Force.” Scanlon lived off-post in an apartment in Fayetteville, a moody military town in the North Carolina pines just outside of Fort Bragg, the biggest Army base in the U.S. On the evening of Sept. 9, 2016, a friend of hers from the gym, a military wife whom I’ll call “Tina” to protect her privacy, invited her to a charitable event at a barbecue restaurant and bar called Mac’s Speed Shop. It was a fundraiser to honor five slain Green Berets, hosted by “some SF guys,” Tina texted.
The Special Forces of the U.S. Army are based out of Fort Bragg, as is the powerful and secretive Joint Special Operations Command, making this spot, inland of the Eastern Seaboard, the central node in the United States’ global special-operations complex. But Scanlon’s unit, despite its distinguished pedigree going back to World War I, is a division of the conventional Army, which is kept separate from top-secret JSOC by high walls, both literal and figurative.
Scanlon and Tina arrived at Mac’s shortly before 10 p.m. A number of motorcycles were parked out front. They belonged to members of the Coast x Coast motorcycle club, made up of active-duty soldiers on Delta Force, a classified manhunting unit that is the Army component of JSOC. A nonprofit associated with the club, the Coast x Coast Foundation, raises money through annual cross-country motorcycle rides to honor fallen special operators. The founder and CEO of the nonprofit is a 39-year-old man, Cristobal Lopez Vallejo, who goes by the alias Cris Valley. He was host of the event at Mac’s that night. Right as Scanlon and Tina walked into the crowded barbecue joint and beer hall, Vallejo stopped them, “tried to flex, laughed, and walked away,” Tina would later recall to a Fayetteville detective.
Vallejo, dressed in camouflage cargo shorts and a T-shirt, was tall, lean, strong, and fiercely handsome, with a black beard and shaggy brown hair much longer than most soldiers get to wear. “Throughout the whole night he kind of acted like a celebrity,” Scanlon says. “Going around chatting with people like a politician.”
At the time he met Scanlon, who was nearly 10 years his junior, Vallejo was a sergeant first class. He had done three combat rotations with Delta Force — two in Afghanistan and one in Iraq — but she never guessed that he was a “trained killer,” in her words. She took him for a run-of-the-mill special-forces veteran, retired from the Army or otherwise discharged, because she’d been taught that it’s against regulations for active-duty personnel to solicit donations for a military cause, and that was the whole point of the Coast x Coast Foundation. “A guy who’s in Delta Force would not be flashing his name around and having a nonprofit and partying at a bar. He was not a ‘quiet professional,’ ” she says, using a term that special-operations generals came up with in the 1980s to describe themselves, and since repeated endlessly in the news media.
Shortly after she and Tina arrived at Mac’s the night of the fundraiser, Scanlon recognized the Coast x Coast club’s logo from a Facebook photo of her old ROTC mentor, the ex-Delta soldier, which made her implicitly trust Vallejo and his crew, she recalls. “I asked him if I could take a picture in front of their logo to send to my instructor,” she says. “He gave me his card and invited us to go to the next bar with everyone.”
They exchanged phone numbers, and a group of about nine, led by Vallejo, relocated from Mac’s to a bar called Paddy’s, an over-the-top Irish pub out on Raeford Road that has a metal detector at the front entrance, bartenders in Scottish kilts, brass bathroom door handles cast with anatomical exactitude in the form of male genitalia, and urinals shaped like a woman’s mouth. At one point, while posing for a group photo, Vallejo “grabbed my arse,” Scanlon claims. “I didn’t say anything when he did that. Sad as it is, that happens a lot. That’s being a girl at a bar.”
According to text messages she sent a girlfriend the next day, Scanlon “was drunk and flirted with him.” But she didn’t consent to what later ensued, she immediately added. “I said no over and over.”
Scanlon claims that Vallejo raped her that night, and says that the trauma still haunts her to this day. Reached through his lawyer, Vallejo declined to comment for this story. Vallejo says the sex was consensual and was acquitted of all charges arising from the incident in a June 2018 court-martial on Fort Bragg. He was originally set to be tried in civilian court, but Army prosecutors assigned to Special Forces swooped in at the last minute and caused the Cumberland County district attorney to drop the charges so that Vallejo could be tried by the military. No reporters attended the subsequent court-martial, and no transcript was made of the proceedings. As soon as it concluded with an acquittal, the Army deleted the audio recordings.
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:08 pm to MadeupName
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He was originally set to be tried in civilian court, but Army prosecutors assigned to Special Forces swooped in at the last minute and caused the Cumberland County district attorney to drop the charges so that Vallejo could be tried by the military
Not sure I buy this one. We always let the civilians take charge when they want to prosecute. Something tells me there was conflicting evidence, the civilians didn't think it was a strong case, so then the military tried a courts-martial
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:14 pm to Cosmo
quote:Yeah our military would be better off getting rid of a majority of its nurses.
Women shouldnt be in military other than secretary jobs
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:15 pm to MadeupName
The Army will go to great lengths (and the rest of the government as well) to cover up anything that might be embarrassing.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:16 pm to MadeupName
Whatever happen to the WACs?
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:19 pm to MadeupName
What's the point of this story? Sounds like an accusation was made, a trial occurred and there was an acquittal.
That's the way it's supposed to work.
That's the way it's supposed to work.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:21 pm to AlextheBodacious
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Yeah our military would be better off getting rid of a majority of its nurses.
Nurses are just doctors secretaries so you’d be fine
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:23 pm to Cosmo
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Women shouldnt be in military other than secretary jobs
Based on her flash she is a Redleg in the 2nd Battalion of the 319th. They are basically secretaries. They get addresses, ship out packages airmail, and move to another desk.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:25 pm to MadeupName
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But Scanlon’s unit, despite its distinguished pedigree going back to World War I
Dude lost me here. Delta was created during the Iranian hostage crisis. If you wanna try to date it back further you could maybe tie it to MACV-SOG but that was even created during ‘Nam and even then that’s more generalized SF.
This reporter is just fishing for a cancel culture in my opinion.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:27 pm to Shepherd88
Reporter is talking about the female officers unit. 82nd Airborne.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:27 pm to MadeupName
Did he put his P in her V?
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:28 pm to jbgleason
The deletion of all records of the trial testimony is suspicious. Supposedly it was to protect Vallejo's identity because he was a member of Delta, but he was already giving interviews for years by that point. He even threw out the first pitch at an MLB game.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:38 pm to MadeupName
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Fort Bragg
Racist.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:50 pm to MadeupName
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had secured a lieutenant’s slot in the storied 82nd Airborne Division
Said no one ever.
I personally said, and this is a direct quote, “Aw frick, not Fayetteville.”
Posted on 11/24/23 at 5:58 pm to MadeupName
Got drunk - check
Got flirted with by a good looking Delta Force operator - check
Gave up the pussy - check
Woke up sober - check
Blown off by good looking operator and realizes she was just a piece of arse - check
RAPE!!!! - check
Got flirted with by a good looking Delta Force operator - check
Gave up the pussy - check
Woke up sober - check
Blown off by good looking operator and realizes she was just a piece of arse - check
RAPE!!!! - check
Posted on 11/24/23 at 6:24 pm to Shepherd88
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Delta was created during the Iranian hostage
Yeah but the real DF wasn't until '86
Posted on 11/24/23 at 6:26 pm to WriTenn
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Got drunk - check
Got flirted with by a good looking Delta Force operator - check
Gave up the pussy - check
Woke up sober - check
Blown off by good looking operator and realizes she was just a piece of arse - check
RAPE!!!! - check
very likely, and shouldn't she face discipline for "fraternizing" with enlisted personnel? or is that no longe a thing?
Posted on 11/24/23 at 6:32 pm to 777Tiger
No commander is going to hit a rape accuser with a fraternization charge
Right or wrong, that's how it works. Commanders are scared shitless about rapes/SAs
Right or wrong, that's how it works. Commanders are scared shitless about rapes/SAs
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