Woman poses as army officer
From correspondents in London
April 22, 2004
A WOMAN posing as a military officer conned her way onto a British airforce base and lived there undetected for five months, even running up a large bar bill, a report said.
The 35-year-old, named by the Sun newspaper as Kelsey McMillan, pretended to be an army medic on a training course and was only detected after she successfully applied for a transfer to a different base.
McMillan even travelled on Royal Air Force helicopters as they undertook search and rescue operations, the newspaper reported in its Thursday edition.
The imposter arrived at the RAF Valley base in north Wales last October dressed as a captain and bearing a genuine identification card she held as a private in the Territorial Army, a civilian reserve force.
Claiming to be visiting her fiance, McMillan moved into officers' quarters after supposedly breaking up with the man and ran up a 300-pound bar bill, saying she was waiting for wages to be transferred.
According to the newspaper, she was arrested four days after arriving at her new ?posting?, a base in southwest England containing secretive airborne early-warning systems and anti-submarine patrols.
An unnamed ?insider? at the first base told the Sun that the incident was ?a shocking security disaster?.
?This woman had access to the entire base and we all thought she was a trained doctor,? they said.