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Gates announces 45 day Review of Fort Hood Massacre
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by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | November 19, 2009 at 10:50 am
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Department of Defence Secretary Robert Gates has announced a 45 day review of procedures in place and recommendation on how to prevent future attacks within DoD. This review is a result of the Fort Hood massacre.
Gates has appointed former Defence Secretary West and Admiral Clark to complete this review. The review is all encompassing, including how DoD deals with stress, counseling procedures, mass casualty evacuation procedures and reporting procedures of adverse members within the department. Both individuals are very familiar with the department.
Gates said that the Army would do a longer review to streamline its procedures.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped a former senior defense official to lead a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings, The Associated Press has learned.Gates will announce today that it will be a single, coordinated review, and will call for a quick, short-term report, followed by a longer, more extensive study, according to an administration official.
Components of the wide-ranging probe could include self-examinations by the Army and the military's medical community, and likely look at personnel policies and the availability of mental health services for troubled troops.
It would go well beyond the specific case of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in the shootings at the Texas military post Nov. 5.
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at 12:28 on November 19th, 2009
about time
at 12:32 on November 19th, 2009
Yep I believe 13 lives could have been saved,
at 17:24 on November 19th, 2009
Did you see his press conference per chance? Its not clear to me whether the criteria for accepting people into the military medical program are going to be evaluated.
at 17:32 on November 19th, 2009
I did see the press conference he mentioned nothing specific on that. I bet it will be comprehensive review though and it will no doubt include both Hasans superiors and those that wrote Performance Reports
In all liklihood then Senior US Medical personnel would be engaged. That will probably come after the 45 day review though/
at 17:37 on November 19th, 2009
Components of the wide-ranging probe could include self-examinations by the "Army and the military's medical community, and likely look at personnel policies and the availability of mental health services for troubled troops."
Could include, or will include?
Thanks for this, ACP!
at 17:41 on November 19th, 2009
Thank you Rhonda:) In all likelihood it will be included.
at 18:02 on November 19th, 2009
Hell Comes Home
Killing is the ultimate traumatic experience
There’s no armor, it turns out, for conscience. So our men and women are coming home from the killing fields wounded in their heads, used up, greeted only by the military’s own meat grinder of inadequate health care and intolerance for “weakness.” Continue
at 18:04 on November 19th, 2009
13 VS. 2,000,000
Fort Hood Shootings a Shocker...Why Not U.S. War Crimes?
American lives are worth a lot. - The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Continue
at 18:26 on November 19th, 2009
Interesting link to say the least. For the record though, Afghanistan is sanctioned by the UN.
at 10:00 on November 24th, 2009
Pentagon Convenes Fort Hood Shooting Task Force - Michael J. Carden, American Forces Press Service. The leaders of the Pentagon’s review board on the Fort Hood, Texas, rampage reported for duty here today to begin their 45-day investigation to what led to the mass shooting, a Pentagon official said. The Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center left 12 soldiers and one Army civilian dead and 30 others injured. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced Nov. 19 that the initial review board will be headed by former Army Secretary Togo West and former Chief of Naval Operations Vern Clark. West and Clark met with their staff, which consists of representatives from each of the military services, for the first time today. They are: Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, US Army Europe and Seventh Army commander; Navy Vice Adm. Michael C. Vitale, commander of Navy Installations Command; Air Force Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton III, Air Force deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel; and Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Willie J. Williams, director of the Marine Corps staff. The panel will review possible weaknesses in Pentagon policies, programs and procedures in hopes of preventing similar incidences in the future, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. Also, West and Clark are scheduled to meet with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates this afternoon to further outline and address his intents. “They have a very tight timeline to operate off of,” Whitman said. “It’s a very ambitious task that the secretary has given them.” The terms of reference for the investigation, which was publically released today, will guide the task force in their review. The Pentagon’s review is independent of the criminal investigation, as well as those by the inspector general and White House, and doesn’t employ the task force to take action against people suspected of withholding information that may have prevented the incident. According to the terms of reference, the Pentagon’s review will not overlap with President Barack Obama’s review of intelligence matters related to the shooting or investigations of individuals in the intelligence community.