The tests at issue in the military inquiry were preliminary and lacked some of the controls being used in the gp-160 trials now underway.
The final military inquiry had not been completed, and some at the Pentagon argued that an official apology was premature.
He was then relieved from active service, but was cleared by a military inquiry.
That task belongs to investigators in Brazil, where several military, prosecutorial and judicial inquiries are continuing.
Before dawn the news had trickled about that the military inquiry would take place that day.
Various military inquiries have tried to address some of these problems.
Despite the continuous reduction of forces, especially after the 1990s, it is seen that the military inquiries for access to radio spectrum have not decreased.
In May 1989, the military inquiry announced that disciplinary action against four officers and seven border policemen would be taken for "misconduct".
Israeli officials said they had already done so in their military inquiry.
A military inquiry later found no fault with the American forces.