Wonder what is up with this?
So do the wounded soldiers have their First Amendment rights back yet?
BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 9 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Army said Thursday that the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been relieved of command following disclosures about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who was commanding general of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command as well as Walter Reed hospital, was relieved of command by Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey.
In a brief announcement, the Army said service leaders had “lost trust and confidence” in Weightman’s leadership abilities “to address needed solutions for soldier outpatient care” at Walter Reed.
It would be interesting to compare the offices of this general versus some of the rooms and conditions wounded verterans had to endure.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17372118/
more info posted at url above.
Based on what I've read today about WRMC officials knowing about the slum/bureaucracy problem for at least three years, I think Kevin Kiley needs to get the boot as well.
WaPo and Imus deserve credit for this ... not that I like either.
ANYTHING said 'bout wieghtman's compensation pkg.? he'll continue in grade w/pension unchanged?
Must be from the off campus set up for recouperating personnel
I have a hard time believing the Walter Reed case was the exception rather than the norm.
Heads deserved to roll over this, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of lower ranked heads follow suit.
GOOD if my family member was wounded in battle I want them get best of care
HELLO
Having grown up an Army brat, this points out what government health care would be like.
Fire this SOB too!
I've seen up close what a family has to go through to get treatment for a soldier that had a serious head wound. The VA and the DOD have been screwing up!
Every one of these kids that have been seriously injured should have as much in their pockets as the 911 families do.
If we cannot take care of the families of our dead and for our wounded and their families bring them all home!
Some give with their lives, some give for the rest of their lives.
Looks like when you are serving in uniform you are a hero. When you're not, you're a cost. Patton would have shot them himself.
Looks like Dana Priest got herself a general's scalp....
Wonder what the rest of the outline that the group is implementing looks like.
good.
WashPost ran an "expose" a week or so ago, followed by reports that patient barracks were slums with rats.
This is suspect in my mind.
They've already decided to close Reed because it's a rat-trap. It was a rat-trap every time I visited it since the early 70's. It always looked like hell.
I'm afraid this new secdef is overly sensitive to the media.
Rummie would've told them to take a hike...that they already knew it was junk, that it was junk when they'd inherited it, and that it'd been junk since LBJ.