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...Robert Gates stunned an Army already reeling over charges it mistreated wounded Iraq war veterans when he ousted Army Secretary Francis Harvey Friday afternoon. Harvey, the Army's civilian leader, was by far the most senior official taken to task following reports that outpatients at the Army's Walter Reed hospital in Washington had been poorly treated while living in squalid conditions...
...said Harvey had submitted his resignation, Pentagon officials made it clear he had been asked to do so by Gates. The Defense Secretary strongly implied in his statement that he wasn't pleased by Harvey's decision on Thursday to cashier the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed and replace him, temporarily, with a three-star general who had run the hospital before him. Harvey, who had served as Army secretary since late 2004, was succeeded in an acting capacity by Pete Geren, currently the under secretary of the Army...
...disappointed that some in the Army have not adequately appreciated the seriousness of the situation pertaining to outpatient care at Walter Reed," Gates said in his Friday afternoon statement. "Some have shown too much defensiveness and have not shown enough focus on digging into and addressing the problems." While zinging the Army leadership, Gates praised the medical staff at Walter Reed for "their professionalism and dedication to providing caring treatment...
...Reed had his testicles ripped off and subsequently made a sugary album with supermodel/siren/singer Nico, it would probably sound a lot like Dean and Britta’s debut album, “Back Numbers.” In “Back Numbers,” the married couple, formerly of the indie-rock band Luna, step away from their well-respected place in the music industry to explore a folksy, Mitch and Mickey sound. M. Dean Wareham ’85, who’s billed in the accompanying press material as “an architect...
...Still, as a military institution, the hospital has a responsibility to war casualties even after they leave the wards, a sentiment Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed on Friday while announcing that an indepenent panel would indeed investigate the problems at Walter Reed. The wounded fight a daily battle long after they returned from war. With national politicians finger-pointing and calling soldiers the victims of bad policy, Building 18 was a scandal waiting to happen.It's a shame Walter Reed has let it overshadow the extraordinary care it has provided a generation of warriors...