Word: korb
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...officials acknowledge that the Cobra's crash--and Bell's role in it--could complicate the Marines' efforts to keep buying V-22s because of doubts it might raise about Bell. "If the Marines come down hard on Bell, the whole program could be called into question," says Lawrence Korb, who oversaw Pentagon logistics and personnel during the Reagan Administration...
...Pentagon civilians are seething at the Army's public relations blunder and the demoralizing impact the handling of the case could have on the troops. "You don't let someone go until the inspector general has finished the investigation," says a senior civilian overseeing Pentagon personnel matters. Says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon personnel chief: "It was stupid for them to let him out. There's no certainty they can get him back if they decide he needs to be punished." Even a senior Army officer concedes, "If we'd known back then what we know now about the severity...
...courts-martial when extraordinary circumstances are present." And senior Pentagon officials say it will be much harder to reduce Hale's rank, and consequently his pension, even if Carpino's charges are substantiated. "Once he's retired, the burden of proof shifts from him to the Army," says Korb, the former personnel chief...
...naval officials speculated that Boorda avoided dating them May 16 because that is his only daughter's birthday.) Those who knew Boorda could understand his chagrin. "Since a military officer can ask you to lay your life on the line, you have to trust that person 100%," said Lawrence Korb, a former Assistant Defense Secretary who had worked with Boorda. "You can understand why he'd take it so seriously--it goes right to the core, particularly now, when the Navy is trying to restore a sense of honor...
...Republican from New York, led a similar charge in the mid-1980s, which the Reagan Administration rebuffed. Long-standing military tradition, codified in the Posse Comitatus Act after the Civil War, bars soldiers from actions that could spill over into arrests and seizures of U.S. citizens. Says Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary: "We train them to vaporize, not Mirandize." Alexander says he knows this but offers no details, bridling at the very thought. He'd ask the Joint Chiefs for a plan, he says. That's what Presidents...