General Relieved of Duty at Walter Reed

It was inevitable that someone would be fired. Don't know if this General had anything to do with the problem or not. It could be someone taking the fall, again.
The General, a doctor, was only there for 6 months. His name: Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman. Now he may be to blame and that remains to be seen, but why do I get this feeling that he is a scape goat!

Here's some of the AP article:

Walter Reed general loses his command
The Army on Thursday fired the general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, saying he was the wrong person to fix embarrassing failures in the treatment of war-injured soldiers that have soiled the institution's reputation as a first-class hospital.

Less than a week after Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Walter Reed and said those responsible would be "held accountable," the Army announced it had relieved Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman of command. He is a physician who had headed the hospital for only six months.

In a brief announcement, the Army said service leaders had "lost trust and confidence" in Weightman's leadership abilities "to address needed solutions for soldier outpatient care." It said the decision to fire him was made by Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey.

The Army and the Defense Department began investigations after The Washington Post published stories last week that documented problems in soldiers' housing and in the medical bureaucracy at Walter Reed, which has been called the Army's premier caregiver for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The problems at Walter Reed pertain not to the quality of medical care for wounded soldiers but rather to the treatment of those who are well enough to be outpatients, living in Army housing at Walter Reed. One building was singled out in the Post reports as being in bad repair, including having mold on interior walls.

Gates issued a brief statement Thursday endorsing Harvey's action against Weightman.

"The care and welfare of our wounded men and women in uniform demand the highest standard of excellence and commitment that we can muster as a government," Gates said. "When this standard is not met, I will insist on swift and direct corrective action and, where appropriate, accountability up the chain of command."

This is just part of the problems with the Vets. This firing does not address the issues of getting the right disability payments and it doesn't address the other VA hospitals nation wide. The problems are systemic. And I think the people are working with what they have and probably have been turned down numerous times for the help they need. Also I believe these problems were there befor Maj. Gen. Weightman ever came to Walter Reed.

Funny thing though...his first name is George and his initial is W.