Area Power Director Saved Job After Sporting Mankini to Work, Holding Intercourse Toys within the Workplace: Report

• The top of Area Power’s Warfighting Evaluation Heart was investigated for misconduct.
• Air Power Occasions reported Andrew Cox stored his job, regardless of unprofessional habits and misconduct.
• Cox reportedly wore a chartreuse mankini over his garments within the workplace and stored intercourse toys at work.

A Area Power head analyst stored his job after being investigated for misconduct at work — together with sporting a chartreuse mankini within the workplace and storing intercourse toys at work — in keeping with new paperwork launched to Air Force Times.

Andrew Cox, whereas serving as director of the Pentagon’s Area Safety and Protection Program, acted “like a 13-year-old boy” and created an surroundings unsuitable for a federal office, Air Power Occasions reported his co-workers stated. His office antics launched a six-month investigation that substantiated stories of his misconduct and unprofessional habits.

Cox didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.

In his workplace, in keeping with the report launched to the Air Power Occasions, Cox stored a framed pair of silver, glittery sizzling pants and an electrical inexperienced mankini that he as soon as donned within the office — over his garments — exhibiting off to coworkers through the vacation “Dangerous Santa” social gathering and displaying it greater than as soon as. 

“It was chartreuse inexperienced, and he introduced it out into the primary space,” Air Force Times reported one individual aware of the matter stated of Cox’s revealing bathing go well with, popularized by the 2006 movie “Borat.” “He [told us he] put it on in entrance of his spouse and bent over and stated, ‘Honey, how do you want this?'”

Cox additionally stored a “gag reward” silver case containing handcuffs, intercourse toys, and vaseline within the workplace, as soon as presenting it to attendees throughout a gathering with subordinates. He additionally spoke about male genital piercings and oral intercourse in public, in keeping with the report.

“Witness testimony about Mr. Cox telling subordinates to look ‘Prince Albert’ on the web, or [to] seize somebody ‘by the balls and squeeze,’ give perception into the tradition [he] fostered and inspired,” Air Force Times reported the report stated.

The report detailed the 2020 investigation, which — regardless of his habits reportedly making workers really feel “ostracized and uncomfortable” and prompting one feminine worker to stop — didn’t end in Cox’s suspension or termination. Actually, Cox turned the pinnacle of the Area Power’s new Area Warfighting Evaluation Heart in April 2021, persevering with to earn a six-figure wage.

“Mr. Cox stays the director of the Area Warfighting Evaluation Heart,” Air Force Times reported Air Power spokesperson Ann Stefanek stated Friday. “The matter was addressed via established civilian personnel processes.”

Representatives for the Air Power and Area Power didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s requests for remark.

Although Cox was not terminated, he did lose out on $27,000 in bonus pay and was not eligible to obtain a federal award with a $40,000 money prize. A 30-day suspension was proposed, however he obtained a proper letter of reprimand as a substitute.

A tradition of sexual harassment and violence has long been reported amongst military officers, even civilian employees like Cox. Although harassing jokes and unprofessional habits are sometimes dismissed, one navy assault skilled warned the tradition created by such jokes can escalate.

Within the office, Military Times reported a Navy Sexual Assault Prevention and Response coordinator stated, an individual could use inappropriate jokes to gauge a response to see how a lot they will get away with.

“They could go from a joke right here to a contact there, and so they simply construct that over time, so when the large factor occurs, they had been constructing as much as that,” Military Times reported the official stated. “That is why they’re capable of maintain doing it, as a result of then they know, ‘I do know she’s not going to say something. I do know he is simply going to chortle.'”