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...Font has also charged Alexander with "dereliction of duty" for failing to "properly inspect and maintain" barracks at Ft. Meade, and Ciccolella with "assault and battery" committed during the incident at First Army Headquarters...
Since that time, Alexander has written Font asking him to resign from the Army because of alleged overuse of the telephone and incompetence in performing duties. Instead, Font has chosen to sever himself from the Army through elective discharge, the difference being that the latter would provide him with about $1700 in back pay and an honorable discharge...
...Font's letter of discharge, which the Army ruled on last week, read in part...
...ARMY was embarrassed by the entire Font affair and was generally unwilling to discuss it. Post Commander Col. Alexander admitted last month that the housing conditions at Ft. Meade had been sub-standard but that they were quickly renovated. He flatly denied that Font was ever placed in an empty room with nothing to do. "I have attempted very strongly to employ him profitably," Alexander said. "If I have a lieutenant I like to get a day's work...
...subsequent conversations. Alexander refused to discuss Font and referred all questions to post information officer Joseph J. Hedley. Hedley contended that the barracks in question were occupied by soldiers awaiting disciplinary action and that these men deliberately committed acts of vandalism in their frustration with the Army...