Posted on 07/20/2018 9:12:47 PM PDT by BBell
Camp Pendleton general facing ‘administrative actions’ after reportedly treating aide like a servant while deployed to Iraq
8 at 6:44 pm | UPDATED: July 20, 2018 at 6:45 pm CAMP PENDLETON — A brigadier general serving at the Marine Corps base will receive “administrative actions” for misusing his aide to perform servant-like tasks while deployed to Iraq.
Marine Corps officials confirmed Friday, July 20 that a report by the Department of Defense Inspector General substantiated allegations against Brig. Gen. Rick A. Uribe, who served as deputy commanding general and director of the Combined Joint Operations Center in Baghdad from May 2016 to June 2017.
“The chain of command has addressed the allegations through appropriate administrative actions,” said Chuck Little, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Forces Pacific. “We take all allegations of misconduct seriously.”
Uribe, who now serves as the deputy commanding general of 1 Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), is accused of using his aide to carry out duties that were not part of the job description.
According to the report published this month, Uribe asked the aide to pick up his laundry, remove and turn in his bed sheets for cleaning, provide meals and snacks, draft his unofficial correspondence, reserve gym equipment and collect financial and personal information Uribe needed to complete military paperwork.
The report was initiated by a tip to a Department of Defense hotline on June 15, 2017. The tipster alleged Uribe permitted aide to perform activities other than those required in the performance of official duties. An investigation was opened Aug. 4, 2017.
According to the Inspector General’s report, 23 witnesses were interviewed including Uribe, his aide, the Marine Corps Ethics Program subject matter expert, the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and several Marines deployed with Uribe and his aide in Iraq.
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Boy, if we thought that Patton was demanding during WWII, he would be crucified now.
I guess the pentagon rot has made it to The Corps.
Sounds like your typical aide to a BG. Pick up some laundry, write some letters, make some coffee and get a cushy Pentagon post in a year or two for your efforts. So what’s the beef?
I agree.
It isn't like anyone who has ever served understands that if you are assigned to a position like that as a very junior enlisted man, you are going to be a gopher.
Weird.
Isn’t that why 2nd LTs were invented?
Some of the ‘great lines’ for military
A 2nd LT saying - It has been my experience.
The Navy called them Stewards Mates and they ‘hand and foot’ waited on, picked up after etc etc etc ALL the Officers aboard ship.
The Rating badge was a ‘Half Moon’
Wow, I would not have complained about doing those things, but if that really was inappropriate, it was not cool.
Holy squire abuse, Batman!
Being a BG’s aide beats being in the mud with other junior officers, what’s this guys problem?
The question I have is- did his aide report it or one of the other junior officers that was in the mud? Your question made me wonder about that...
Aside from the personal assistant-type duties, which are usually the province of an aide-de-camp, the soliciting of gifts from lesser paid employees is highly questionable.
George Washington’s closest aide was a slave.
he solicited and accepted gifts from employees who received less pay than himself,” a summary of the 40-plus page report said. The report also found that Uribe accepted gifts, chocolates and loans from subordinates totaling about $782.
It doesn't matter. The Corps cleans up their own messes. They don't like to air their dirty laundry in public and I can tell more than one career will be over. No body likes a tattletale.
Well we didn’t have stewards mates when I was in and I damn well never saw or had any of the mess attendants doing any of this for us - we were lucky to get them to keep the mess accounts correct and actually get our meals on time. Coffee ended up being the JO’s responsibilities on my FFG just because the mess was always - ALWAYS out. XO had enough and assigned it to the Bull .... and despite popular thoughts otherwise he actually apportioned it to all the ensigns on a schedule tied to the watch schedule.
Carrier was the same. Nothing was done for us in our quarters. I’m sure the COs and admirals were different with their assigned staff, but I know my CO on the FFG didn’t have anyone to do this stuff for him..,, then again he was almost as paranoid as Captain Queeg was about his darned strawberries.
>>I bet that I can guess its “ethnicity”.<<
Or sex...
lol.....You were NEVER in the military...RIGHT??
then again he was almost as paranoid as Captain Queeg was about his darned strawberries.
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Stewards Mates in WWII were mostly Black while the Philipinos ‘took over’ when the rates opened up to ALL.
Most of the Philipinos went into Supply & Disbursing or Admin rates...would imagine getting a clearance was a problem for the Native Philipinos.- not sure if they had to serve as Stewards at first or not.
I was in in the 50s & 60s....
I thought he job of an aid was to free up time of a Flagg officer and to observe the flag officer as a learning experience for the day when they them selves might become a Flagg officer. all of the thing describe sounds like what I thought might be given to a second lieutenant or a enlisted individual.
My military experience is limited to the 13 weeks of basic training I went through 1n 1984 (I was discharged for not informing the military of a medical issue when I joined) it would be nice to hear from an officer about what he thinks was the reason for a public discipline.
All I know is the higher the rank the more valuable the time of the officer involved and the more important it is to free up time for that officer to do his duties that might be taking up 18 hour a day.
the idea an officer would take anything from lower ranking officers and enlisted is sickening that truly is rot the other stuff about being treated as a servant I ask why even include it....taking loans and gifts is enough of a reason to get rid of this idiot.
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