Stupid Army Tricks
The Washington Times‘s Rowan Scarborough writes about the emails between Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s supervisors at Walter Reed. Apparently, his superiors were worried that actually disciplining him would cause them to do actual work related to their profession;
“He is a chronically somewhat unprofessional officer with a somewhat poor work ethic,” Maj. Scott Moran, residency director, wrote in e-mail to a superior.
Maj. Moran said he was preparing to put Maj. Hasan on probation and extend his residency.
But the superior rejected the idea, saying it would prompt a total re-evaluation of Maj. Hasan.
The superior wrote back to Maj. Moran: “Please don’t go forward on anything yet. If you put him on probation, even administrative, will require me to convene a relook board.”
And then there was the evaluation of his research project for completion of his residency at Walter Reed;
“I must admit that I am confused as to how this is acceptable as a scholarly activity,” the supervisor wrote. “While information about Islam, this seems to be a history/religious class report rather than a psychiatric scholarly activity. I would expect better academic efforts from a graduating resident.”
Although I hold these guys responsible for allowing an obviously incompetent boob to treat our soldier for what are clearly Politically Correct reasons, the Army has to accept some of the responsibility for fostering a climate that allowed this incompetent boobery to germinate into a weapons grade blindness to the obvious.
Could they have predicted the final outcome? Doubtful that no one, even Hasan, could have seen it coming. But if the Army had been doing it’s job as far as selection, Hasan never would have gone to Fort Hood in the first place.
Category: Military issues
I doubt that there is anyone, of any rank, in the military that believes that one can speak out freely about anothers lack of soldiering. To become a whistleblower can stop ones career in its tracks. The e-mail above enforces my statements that this was an act of radical Islam enabled by Politcal/Military Correctness. Not a lot different than in any government job. If the one who replied above, the superior, doesn’t get his ass chapped for that e-mail, the whole military upper level is guilty of enabling those 14 deaths.
Nuf Sed
Frankly, this is a situation of damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The superior was watching his ass, because as you stated, it would have been career suicide to proceed, but now you, and the Army most likely, want his ass for not committing career suicide. The military and the civilian leadership have created an atmosphere of both political correctness as well as putting the same people in the crosshairs should anything go wrong. That’s not a climate I would volunteer to be in right now.
I absolutely agree that this is a case of PC run amok, and which ultimately resulted in the deaths of 14 innocent Americans, and a number of wounded.
The military MUST stand up and remind the Congress and the President that it CANNOT be used as a laboratory for Social Engineering experiments. The Navy has had it’s recruiting, training and operations impeded through the imposition of stultifying requirements for “diversity” and the accompanying chilling effect that it has on all facets of Navy life. There are no few number of sailors who now automatically question the abilities of those appointed over them because of the diversity requirements. The new Zampolits of diversity are just as feared as the political Zampolits of the Soviet fleet in days gone by.
The military should have only two general requirements for enlistment (outside of the physical) and those are “recruit the Best and the Brightest”. I couldn’t care LESS what color someone’s skin is, where they came from, or anything else as long as they are the best and brightest our country has to offer.
I absolutely abhor all the Diversity crap that is infecting our military, and the Diversity Industry needs to be put on notice that it’s days are numbered. We have better uses for the resources we lose down that sewer pipe.
Respects,
This honestly made my head explode.
I cannot image the holy hell storm that would come if a Toyota official had gotten an email from an engineer questioning the integrity and “work ethic” of the Prius. Those that ever read the email would be purp-walked through the Capitol and hung from the gallows that is the political-media environment of the US today.
The sad thing is that no one has come out from the Army or DoD and said that this single case is the exception not the rule. They always say something like “the chain of command broke down,” or ” we missed some serious red flags.”
The BS continues to roll because no one has asked the big question:
What has the Army and DoD done to fix the situations of;
1. An environment; DURING NOT ONE BUT TWO WARS, which prevents honest assessments of military personnel.
2. Unfit officers continuing to get promoted and positive reviews.
3. Inept medical personnel and officers treating troops.
I guess as long as you are a good party member that is all that matters, aye Commissar?
Funny, my chain of command never had a problem “honestly” assessing my performance, particularly if I wasn’t meeting their standards or expectations. When did the whole “let’s-not-criticize-we-might-hurt-his-feelings” bullshit start?
And AW1–as a former recruiter, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Too many times I saw recruiters, pushed by their seniors, put marginally qualified (read: 31 ASVAB) people on deck because they didn’t want to put in the extra effort to put in the kid who was much better qualified and as such had more options than Johnny Waivers-Out-The-Ass. Of course, it’s the guys in the fleet who pay the ultimate price for the RINC telling the recruiters to put one more on deck so the NRD can make goal that month.
As one Zone Supervisor was heard to say on the 28th of one month, “Just put him in! It’s not like I’LL have to serve with him!”
….“Just put him in! It’s not like I’LL have to serve with him!”….
Now that’s darn scary right there…
You know this would be almost funny, if it had not ended with the deaths of our men at Hood.
It looks like social promotion. Graduate him to somewhere else, where he can be their problem. Academic papers on something relevent to the topic of your resedency at least.
You’d think medicine, being a technical scientific field, dealing with absolutes, would be one of the last places you could just arbitrarily make up your own graduating requirements. Reminds me back a decade or so ago, when certain colleges allowed undergrads to make up their own majors.
Here’s even scarier:
One of Hasan’s commanding officers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Guerrero, told investigators she had considered failing him as an intern but “decided to allow him to pass since he was going into psychiatry and would not be doing any real patient care.”
http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-my-army-really-pisses-me-off.html
Fry him in bacon grease
hahahahaha “recruit the best and the brightest” that is funny.
The best and the brightest are left wingers and they will not serve! Well that is unless they have been recrited by Puten to serve in the US military.
Curt:
You are proof positive that “the best and the brightest” are not left wingers at all. Left wingers, like you and yours, are so much less than “the best and the brightest”, that anyone who really cares about the USA doesn’t even miss you when looking at the Best, the Brave, the Bright. Just Hippies and hippie supporters, doing all possible to convince the world that the USA is not the best damned country on the planet.
Typical lib trash, and can’t even spell easy words like “recruit”, “Putin” and such.
Nuf Sed
Frankly,
He does have the spelling of hahahahaha down pat though. Hey, even a Cat 5 can do something right.
Isn’t Puten that dude from Rusha?
Ah, Curt the Spurt jacking the bandwidth again. So you’re what they meant at MEPS by a “rock with lips”…
Ah, return with us now to those glorious fun-filled days of yesteryear (i.e., late-’90s)… “101 Reasons given by CPTs separating from the Army” (that famed e-mail of 7 FEB 99): “50. Political Correctness – annoy someone on a taboo topic and your 20 year career is over in 15 minutes.”
The deployed-out-the-ass-with-no-budget thing’s on the way back, too (I sure missed being issued used polypros at CIF and expected to return them).