RAF LAKENHEATH — A 48th Operations Group airman was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months’ confinement for larceny and not financially supporting his dependents.

Staff Sgt. Eugene Stokes will serve 14 months’ confinement as part of a pretrial agreement.

He also received a bad-conduct discharge and a reduction to E-3 from the military judge, Col. Gordon Hammock. Stokes pleaded guilty on two specifications of larceny and a dereliction of duty charge in the two-day court-martial.

Stokes served unaccompanied tours at Osan Air Base in South Korea and RAF Lakenheath from 2002 to 2007.

But he took in about $75,000 in basic allowance for housing with dependents while his wife and stepson resided in Cincinnati, said prosecutor Capt. John Goehring.

The maximum sentence Stokes could have faced was 20 years and 3 months’ confinement, Goehring added.

Retired general gets Boeing postRetired Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones was elected to the board of directors of The Boeing Co., the aerospace company announced on Tuesday.

Jones, 63, is the former commander of the Stuttgart, Germany-based U.S. European Command and Mons, Belgium-based Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. He retired from both jobs in December. In March, Jones became president and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington.

“With his many years of service to our country and allies around the world, he has an in-depth understanding of military and global affairs,” said Jim McNerney, the Boeing chairman, president and CEO, in a press release. “As a result of the work he is doing for the institute, he also is knowledgeable about the energy and climate-change issues that are so important to the future of all of us.”