![]() ![]() ![]() We also found that some medical officers failed to include the alleged perpetrator’s overall performance as an officer,rather than his solely academic performance, in his formal performance evaluations. These individuals failed to demonstrate that officership is the essence of being a member of the military profession regardless of the officer’s specialty. We believe that some medical officers failed to apply appropriate judgment and standards of officership with respect to the alleged perpetrator. We also recommend you direct further action on two key concerns identified during our review. We recommend you refer matters of accountability for those failures to the Secretary of the Army for appropriate action. We conclude that although the policies we reviewed were generally adequate, several officers failed to comply with those policies when taking action regarding the alleged perpetrator. In a very telling section, the panel that reviewed the incident made some revealing findings and had what I'd consider some damning words for Hasan's former chain of command: Hood, given his activities, and some sort of action taken earlier on. I haven't had an opportunity to read it all in detail (you can find it here) but one of the areas that most interested me was how MAJ Hasan had managed to avoid being considered a threat prior to Ft. ![]()
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