Rep. Duncan Hunter calls out Generals for failure; recommends against new position/promotion

2014-05-03T12:44:15-04:00

Rep. Duncan Hunter is a young congressman from San Diego and a Marine Corps veteran. Attached is his letter to SecDef and DNI against the promotion Lt Gen Legere's advancement to lead the DIA. In his letter, he calls out a series of what he calls massive institutional failures, and demands that Lt Gen Legere and Maj Gen Fogarty not advance.

He calls them out claiming that the General "holds principal responsibility for failing to deliver urgent capabilities to the warfighter and overseeing initiatives that have repeatedly failed to meet budget and schedule requirements. These failures have manifested in several areas, including poor technical execution, a lack of response to urgent operational needs, unwarranted influence over official assessments, serious breaches of federal funding requirements, and misleading statements to Congress."

It continues... "In order to prevent even more costly failures in the future, the Administration must hold leaders accountable... Now more than ever, government institutions depend on information technology to accomplish their missions. And effective management of large information technology projects is a core responsibility of senior leaders across government."

He goes on to list many details, primarily focused on the Army's failure to successfully deploy a cloud computing system for its deployed troops, despite spending $500M on the project so far.

What are your thoughts on this? Is this too little too late? Is he over stepping his bounds? Or do you think this will actually help the DoD's information systems in the future?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/221549937/Hunter-DIA-Nom

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Response by SGM Matthew Quick made May 3 at 2014 1:04 PM

2014-05-03T13:04:46-04:00

This simply solidifies that our elected leaders (mostly civilians) lead this country...not the military.

Can't do the right thing all the time? Can't be one of our military's senior leaders.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made May 4 at 2014 11:40 AM

2014-05-04T11:40:47-04:00

It seems to me that our elected officials should be skeptical and scrutinize these promotions and appointments. Especially if the person in questions holds responsibility for wasting millions of dollars needlessly. What concerns me most is the willingness of some military leaders to speak for the troops and suggest that they would be ok with pay/benefits cuts when the leaders themselves are complicit in wasting money that could have prevented the need for pay cuts.

Response by SPC Terence Q Burns made Nov 14 at 2019 10:20 PM

2019-11-14T22:20:35-05:00

Duncan Hunter has no room to talk about anybody including his situations. The blind leading the blind.