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An FBI cocaine sting has claimed the career of another Davis-Monthan airman.

Airman 1st Class Adrian R. Watson will be kicked out of the military after serving 20 months in confinement for conspiracy and intent to distribute 33 pounds of the drug.

Watson, 27, who joined the service eight years ago, was sentenced Wednesday to prison time and a bad-conduct discharge for conspiring with a then-sergeant at D-M to transport cocaine in a military vehicle in February 2003.

Watson, a supply technician with D-M's 355th Logistics Readiness Squadron, pleaded guilty at the start of his court-martial Monday. His co-conspirator, former D-M Sgt. Curtis W. Boston II, recently pleaded guilty in federal court in Tucson and is awaiting sentencing.

Watson is the ninth active-duty D-M airman court-martialed in connection with the FBI sting, known as Operation Lively Green, which led to dozens of arrests of Southern Arizona service members and civilian government workers.

The military trials have included videotape footage of airmen carrying bricks of cocaine and counting money while wearing camouflage battle uniforms.

At least a dozen D-M personnel have been charged or prosecuted for conspiracy, cocaine possession or selling the personal information of fellow airmen to people who they thought were drug traffickers. The undercover operation began in late 2001 and spanned more than three years.