Posted on 04/06/2007 6:21:45 PM PDT by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast will be turning over the command of the Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca on June 29 to Brig. Gen. John Custer.
Fast will become the deputy for the Army Capabilities Integration Center at the Training and Doctrine Command headquarters at Fort Monroe, Va. Custer, who is on the promotion list to major general, will be returning to Fort Huachuca from his current assignment as director of intelligence for the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. During his previous stint on the fort, Custer served as the Intelligence Center's deputy commander.
For more on this story, see Saturday's Herald/Review.
Soon to be a story as some tried to tie her to Abu-Gharib.
Ogod.
I knew Custer as a 1LT.
Unless he has undergone a total personality transplant, look for bad things coming out of the schoolhouse.
THAT... does not bode well.
Having recently gone through the school-house, the Commandant doesn’t have a big role. I never met or heard MG Fast my entire five months at Ft. Huachuca.
When I wore a younger man’s uniform, Officer Calls to the CG were mandatory. I personally met Uncle Sidney and Uncle Julius in this way.
I am glad I didn’t meet Aunt Claudia. Aunt Barbara, I’m just not sure of.
But Custer? I’ll keep you in my prayers.
Custer did not do too well as a Colonel either. Hiwever, his enemies are always after his scalp!
I last met him as an O-3. He spent his whole junior career within praying distance of the flagpole.
Probably different days, when some of the old traditions were still in practice. Not so anymore.
:shaking head sadly:
Isn’t that the way of things...
Then we may have crossed paths a couple of times. Met Uncle Julius when I was as OAC at Ft Wegotcha in 1987. Have no memory of this Custer guy.
Haven’t worn my blues or A’s since I left OBC. Then, I was in Iraq for 10 months immediately after OBC, so that might be a cause for that.
I was briefly at Wegotcha in ‘87, out there for the SSO Course.
OBC in ‘85, OAC in ‘89.
Custer was the DA Rep for MI Branch as an O-1 thru O-3. Ft. meade and the Palace. That’s why you didn’t see him; Huachuca was flyover country to him.
You were OIF 4, I think? Or OIF 3?
Can somebody in the know tell us if this a move up, lateral, or down for MG Fast? Thanks in advance
Not likely in my experience. If they are an ass hole when a 2LT or 1LT, you can bet your last can of C-Rations that he is a complete and utter ass hole to deal with now.
Think it’s a lateral staff job to hide her.
Is that your take Jinx?
172 SBCT out of Ft. Wainwright, AK. I think its OIF III, but I’m not sure. We are on OIF IV right now, I think. I just call it OIF.
With a helluva lot more weight ontheir collar, to go with it.
That is what makes them dangerous.
Yep, OBC 1983, OAC 1987, stationed and ets 1992-1993. So a little ahead of you. The ones that seem to be strap hangers to the stars seem to be the biggest pains when it really came to working thing.
In the past, the only place for CG Huachuca to go was DCSINT and a third star. That was how it was with Uncle Sidney, Uncle Julius, and I think also Aunt Claudia.
What they're planning on with Aunt Barbara is, and I agree with SandRat, is a lateral to hide her.
You were one year-group ahead of me then, bro.
Any relation to the guy who had that nasty run in with the Indians?
He was calling himself “the lion of the DMZ” at Camp Casey in 1981 while we were in 102nd MI.
That’s our lad. He didn;t change when I knew him - I doubt he’s any different now.
Probably his last stand!!!
Same old story. I worked for former Clinton Drug Czar and retired General Barry McCaffrey when he was but a lowly light colonel and a Division G3. He ruined careers just because he could. It was sport for him in the 1980s. When he got command of the 3rd Brigade, he got worse. I can only imagine him as the Div Cdr for the 24th ID during Desert Storm. But he got along fine with the Clinton's. Hmmmmm.
This Custer guy. Any distant relation to George Armstrong Custer? That would fit perfectly. THAT Custer was a meglomaniac for sure. Terrible tactician as the results of Little Big Horn prove.
The running joke was, he’s direct descent or somethign to that effect. Couldn’t confirm it, though.
Beats me. I know my boss went from here to Fortress Monroe, but he was LTC at that time. Yes, it's a staff position, but lateral? Dunno...
Thank you for your service.
A 96B/97E couple from Ft. Wainwright via Iraq just moved in next door to me.
I bet I know them. E-7s?
I believe so.
Rank didn’t come up, but it shows.
Biggs, our boy Custer LOVED his tour at Meade.
It's going to be an interesting year or two...I'm sure it'll have an effect on the civilian workforce as well...
I assume the “Aunt Claudia” to whom we are referring here is LTG Claudia Kennedy. Her name had been bandied about as being the next DIRNSA. Fortunately, that scenario never materialized. I went to school at Goodfellow in 1960 and spent the next 37 years in the business.
I considered pinging the entire MI list, but it looks like lots of us already found the thread.
>>>Think it’s a lateral staff job to hide her.
Give her something to do until she retires...that’s what a source tells me...
Right in one. The old MI community always referred to the top spook as “Aunt” or “Uncle”.
Uncle Sidney (LTG Weinstein) had some baggage during his stay - his commissioned daughter was caught in bed with an enlisted member of the same sex, and was told privately to resign. uncle Sidney never quite recovered from that one.
You obviously, know about Aunt Claudia.
As ABC News, Jul 23, reported, regarding the violence in Iraq, the director
of intelligence for Central Command, Brig. Gen. John Custer, explained, “The
big myth is that the foreign fighters are everywhere, that there are
thousands,” Custer said. “My feeling is that that’s largely that Arab street
[spreading the myth]. That’s the story everybody wants to hear, and Iraqis
don’t want to admit that some of [the bombers] might be Iraqis.”
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AIN’T NO INJUNS OUT THERE EITHER YOU DUMBASS !!!
Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!
TANKS for the ping,Rat,,,all better now...
Just Like The “Other One”...
Underestimates Enemy...
Overestimates Himself...
This new Custer may be cut from the same bolt of cloth.
That’s our boy. Finger-in-the-breeze intel. What will make the command group smile.
I can’t believe it!!
She should be fired
This new Custer may be cut from the same bolt of cloth.
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Sure looks like it with a statement like that,,,
Hey Sarge,,,I saw your posts,,,had to go looky,,,
“soldier’s gut”...(gets worse the older ya’ get)...;0)
I remember Custer. This isn’t good news.
>>Soon to be a story as some tried to tie her to Abu-Gharib.<<
Wasn’t a colonel who reported to her the highest ranking officer punished over Abu-Gharib? I think he was found to be physically present when a terrorist was tortured to death so its expected the press will bring up again what she knew or should have known about what went on in her command.
(BTW, General Fast was exonerated on the dereliction of duty charges after Colonel Pappas claimed she encouraged the abuse)
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