Fourteen leaders relieved or suspended after scathing report on Fort Hood

Thank you my friend SSG(P) (Join to see) for making us aware that Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy and the five civilian members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee determined there was an environment at Fort Hood that allowed sexual assault and harassment to proliferate, and that Army CID agents at the post were under-experienced and over-assigned.
The review also raised concerns about how Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention programs are conducted across the force, as well as how the Army investigates soldiers’ deaths and disappearances beyond Fort Hood.
“Our charter was to look at Fort Hood and that was what we did. But we are not oblivious to the fact that this is one Army and Fort Hood is potentially emblematic of other things going on in the Army,” said Jack White, an attorney with a background in government investigations who was on the committee."

Fourteen leaders at Fort Hood, Texas, from the deputy commander down to the squad level, were relieved or suspended after the Army secretary and chief of staff were handed the results of an independent committee’s review of the command climate there.
III Corps deputy commander, Maj. Gen. Scott L. Efflandt, as well as the 3rd Cavalry Regiment commander and senior enlisted soldier, Col. Ralph Overland and Command Sgt. Maj. Bradley Knapp, were all relieved,
McCarthy also directed the suspension of two 1st Cavalry Division leaders, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Broadwater and Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas C. Kenny

FYI Sgt Kelli Mays SFC (Join to see) PO3 Phyllis Maynard TSgt David L. SPC Chris Bayner-Cwik SPC Woody Bullard LTC John Shaw PO1 H Gene Lawrence PO2 Frederick Dunn PO2 (Join to see) MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D.

It’s not just piss poor leaders at the top. Those soldiers didn’t suddenly pin on a star or CSM and become that way. They’ve been that way probably the bulk of their careers, meaning they’ve fostered this same climate at every level of command or leadership. And since leaders grow other leaders, many of the people that served with them now are fostering the same climate elsewhere. The Army is a big, big web of careers and influence and assignments. This is a report “about” Fort Hood, but how many junior officers have learned under those GO’s and how many 1SG’s and CSM’s under those relieved CSM’s?
The Army has given me every tangible material benefit I have in my life. It has given me a sense of belonging, a job that I love (taking care of soldiers) and sent me to do some pretty cool shit. But in this respect we. Are. Broken.

And it will take all of us doing some serious soul searching and self analysis to correct if. Anyone who isn’t on board I cordially invite to seek other avenues of employment. And if you roll up into my AO fostering this toxic ass climate, I will recalibrate you.

Those CID stats are a sad joke. Whoever is in Command of that needs relieved as well, and everyone at their school house who were sending inexperienced Agents to Hood right away.