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...Monday in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal. Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley, who had run the Army's pre-eminent hospital from 2002 to 2004, has submitted his resignation, the Army announced. Following the firing of Army Secretary Francis Harvey and Walter Reed commander Major General George Weightman, Army officials are talking of new leadership to fix the care given to wounded outpatients at Walter Reed...
...strikes me as unfair to punish Walter Reed's leaders for extending top-notch services longer than military hospitals have in the past. Hospital commander General George Weightman, who was fired, had begun to address outpatient issues even before they became public. But he and his colleagues failed to grasp the extent to which Walter Reed's responsibilities had grown from frontline medicine to hospitality, a job they were no more prepared for than Pentagon planners were for the long-term occupation of Iraq. The battle of the wounded will continue long after the fighting, their plight resonating with...
OUSTED. Francis Harvey, 63, U.S. Army Secretary; following the disclosure of embarrassingly poor conditions for war wounded at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center; in Washington. The hospital's commander, Major General George Weightman, was also dismissed...
...string of firings is raising questions about just who is being held accountable as the nation prepares to enter its fifth year of the war in Iraq. Harvey is gone, and the career of the Walter Reed commander he fired Thursday, Major General George Weightman, is all but over. The temporary Walter Reed boss, Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley is likely to meet the same fate. Yet, as the war the Bush administration predicted would be a "cakewalk" before it began has bogged down, not a single civilian boss or top military commander has taken a similar fall...
...That's why the firing of Weightman - who ran Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the past six months - seemed so out of line. Harvey canned him 10 days after the Washington Post exposed the poor living conditions - and lassez-faire attitude from hospital staff - that many outpatients experienced. Harvey replaced Weightman with Kiley, the commander of U.S. Medical Command, who had run Walter Reed from 2002 to 2004. Late Friday, the Army announced that Major General Eric Schoomaker, an Army doctor and younger brother of the current Army chief of staff, would become Walter Reed's new commander...