The Louisiana National Guard’s adjutant general fired his senior enlisted adviser Friday, after investigators substantiated allegations of sexual harassment involving another member of the Guard, a spokesman confirmed Saturday. The National Guard has opened a criminal investigation into whether Sgt. Maj. Tommy Caillier has committed a sexual assault, said Lt. Col. Michael Kazmierzak, the state’s public affairs officer.
Caillier, 53, a Lafayette native, could not be immediately reached for comment Saturday. He was the highest-ranking enlisted soldier in the state’s military force. As command sergeant major, he was Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis’s right-hand man on all matters affecting enlisted soldiers and airmen in the Louisiana National Guard.
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