Word: reimer
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Army officers close to Hale's boss, Army Chief of Staff General Dennis Reimer, have been quick to speak up for the retired general. They acknowledge that they don't know for sure what occurred between him and Carpino. But their comments, designed in part to protect Reimer, the Army's top general, betray a willingness to disparage a female accuser. They suggest it was Carpino who was the harasser, the one "stalking" Hale. The general, they say, wanted to retire quickly to avoid dragging himself and the Army through the mud. "She thought she was going...
Carpino filed a complaint about Hale's actions with Army investigators on Jan. 22. Because of Hale's rank, they turned the case over to the Pentagon's inspector general. Shortly after learning of it, Hale submitted his request to leave the military; he was honorably discharged by Reimer a week later...
...handle its top officers, under a system designed to insulate them from the grilling routinely faced by their subordinates. Unlike personnel decisions for the other 485,000 people in the Army, those involving the service's 307 generals are dealt with by a separate general officer management office under Reimer's purview...
...Army regulations require that the personnel folders of soldiers under investigation be pulled from the Army's regular files and "flagged" to "guard against the accidental execution of specified favorable personnel actions." The rules say that retirement is "prohibited" until the flag is removed. But Army officers working for Reimer say Hale got no special protection. They say that because Reimer knew Hale was under investigation, Hale's file didn't need to be formally flagged. And it was within Reimer's power to issue a waiver allowing Hale to retire in spite of the investigation. "Is Reimer supposed...
Hoster's accusation could do more damage to the Army's image than the multiple probes now under way of drill sergeants who allegedly assaulted female trainees at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground and other bases. Last week General Reimer told a Senate committee that among those 170 trainers there are "a few bad apples." But Hoster's allegations, if true, suggest a more pervasive rot. "Because of Aberdeen, the non-commissioned officers are the part of the Army under the most scrutiny for sexual harassment," says military sociologist Charles Moskos. "When the sergeant major of the Army...