Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green is shown while serving as command chief at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, on Sept. 4, 2019, left, and during a chief’s induction ceremony in Tampa on Jan. 31, 2020, right. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Ryan C. Grossklag and Airman 1st Class Shannon Bowman)
A former top enlisted leader of Air Force Special Operations Command was reduced from chief master sergeant to airman basic and sentenced to 10 years in confinement after being convicted of secretly recording his teenage stepdaughter and producing child pornography.
Chief Master Sgt. Anthony W. Green was found guilty Sept. 17 of indecent recording and possessing, viewing and producing child pornography following a four-day general court-martial at Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Military judge Col. Willie Joseph Babor sentenced Green to 10 years for producing child pornography and two years each for indecent recording, possession and viewing. The sentences will run concurrently, meaning Green’s total confinement is 10 years.
Green was also reduced from E-9, the Air Force’s highest enlisted pay grade, to E-1 and received a dishonorable discharge.
Green was acquitted of obstructing justice.
The Air Force said the offenses involved one victim and occurred on or near Hurlburt Field. The Department of the Air Force Office of Special Trial Counsel brought the charges and prosecuted the case.
Testimony reported by Mid Bay News revealed that the victim was Green’s then-15-year-old stepdaughter and that investigators recovered hidden cameras aimed at her bed.
The cameras were reportedly disguised as common household objects, including a surge protector and wall charger. Another was concealed inside an air purifier.
The girl discovered she was being recorded in April 2025 after seeing Green’s phone displaying a live feed from her bedroom, according to testimony. She later reported what happened to a school resource officer, who contacted the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Air Force investigators searched Green’s residence and vehicle with permission from his wife. Agents recovered another concealed camera from the girl’s bedroom containing a memory card with recordings, according to the testimony.
Prosecutors also presented evidence showing Green had purchased several hidden cameras in the months before the recordings were discovered. Digital forensic evidence linked his phone to the cameras’ livestreaming application and showed that images and recordings had been saved to the device.
Phone data indicated the application remained open for approximately 25 hours during the nine days before the camera was discovered, Mid Bay News reported.
Green’s defense argued that he installed the cameras to monitor the girl because of what it described as behavioral concerns and that his actions were an exercise of parental authority. The girl’s mother testified that she did not authorize Green to place cameras in her daughter’s bedroom and was unaware they were there.
The military judge rejected the defense’s attempt to present parental rights as an affirmative defense.
Green did not testify during the findings portion of the trial. Before sentencing, however, he delivered an unsworn statement describing his conduct as an “enormous mistake” and asked the judge not to impose a dishonorable discharge, citing his nearly three decades of military service.
Green entered the Air Force in 1995 and became AFSOC’s command chief in May 2023. In that position, he served as the senior enlisted adviser to the commander of the Air Force organization responsible for special operations aviation forces and air commandos worldwide.
He was removed from the position in April 2025 because of what AFSOC described at the time as a loss of confidence.
Publicly available records reviewed by The Salty Soldier did not reveal a corresponding criminal case against Green in Florida state court or in federal district court. His prosecution was handled entirely through the military justice system.
Although a court-martial is a federal military proceeding, the case was not filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Green’s full middle name could not be independently confirmed. Official Air Force records consistently identify him as Anthony W. Green.
The findings and sentence remain subject to the military’s post-trial and appellate review process.
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