Everyone is well-aware of the mess the Bu$h malAdministration and its sycophantic dress-up dolls in the Army have made at Walter Reed Medical Center. The charges from WaPo in a two-day series of investigative journalism that is truly heroic, under the circumstances, are still echoing through the Army.

MG Weightman, the CG at Walter Reed, did what any general would do under the circumstances: deny it ever happened, then deny it was as serious as it sounded, and then give “command guidance” that the EM involved were to be prohibited from talking with the press, and that “the process” was to be put in place to teach them a lesson.

Thus, we found yesterday that wounded EM, mostly amputees, were informed by the CSM of the hospital that they were to roll out at 600 AM, and have their rooms ready for inspection by 700 AM. Since this sort of chickenshit martinet play rarely happens even in STRAC duty units in the US, that part of the process was quashed after just one day.

The press has been baying like a pack of hungry dogs over this story, since it’s an easy thing to do, now that a real reporter has done the work. There’s a Pulitzer Prize in this story.

A message came over the transom just a few minutes ago advising me that MG Weightman has been relieved. I’m not certain it’s official as of this hour, but I’d guess that’s it for him. Also, my informant, who knows a bit about hospital management, advised me that the Joint Commission on Accredited Healthcare Organizations showed up yesterday on an unannounced inspection tour. The stated purpose of the “for cause” inspection is to look into WRAMC’s discharge procedures which seem to be so sloppy that quite a few GIs go missing in then system after being released from the hospital.

I understand the JCAHO technically has the legal authority to revoke WRAMC’s licensing. That would be interesting.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the JCAHO tour included Building 18.

Considering that the appropriate departments within the Army knew of these problems years ago and ignored them, one might think sanctions are in ord