Posted on 01/12/2010 5:48:36 AM PST by darrellmaurina
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Jan. 12, 2009) — Department of Defense personnel announced Monday that Maj. Gen. David E. Quantock, who currently heads American prison facilities in Iraq, will succeed Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin as Fort Leonard Wood’s commanding general. Quantock, a career military policeman who previously served as the commandant of the Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood, is known as the American commander brought in to repair the damage caused by the 2004 detainee abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in which several American soldiers abused Iraqi detainees and photographed them in various sexually humiliating positions. More recently, Quantock has been working to release detainees or transfer them to the control of Iraqi security forces and was responsible for the Sept. 17 shutdown of Camp Bucca, a large American-run prison in Iraq that once housed more than 21,000 inmates. “We understand at some point many of these detainees will be released and it does no good to improperly treat detainees who will someday be released,” Quantock said in an interview with Arab media. “Our focus inside our facilities is to separate extremists from moderates, to give them some educational and vocational training so that when they leave our facilities, they can positively contribute to the future of Iraq and to themselves. And that’s why, as we start to transition Taji, one of our main efforts is to put a vocational training center at Taji that, when we leave, that will not stop because we would like to leave, at Taji, a model facility that can be replicated throughout Iraq.”
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Fort Lost in the Woods!
It was called “Little Korea” when I was there (a long time ago).
in the State of Misery!
Although he never commanded Ft Leonard Wood, I believe General Maxwell Thurman who was a former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army TRADOC Commander and Commander of the the Panama Incursion was an MPC Officer before advancing to General.
Mad Max was a first class pr***.
Some people loved him and others hated him. He was however probably one of the most brilliant minds the Army ever had.
PS: He was my last boss and is currently buried in Arlington. Died of Lukemia several years ago.
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