Ex-Walter Reed chief to run Fort Detrick
Ex-Walter Reed Medical Chief to Command Fort Detrick, Biological Weapons Defense Research
DAVID DISHNEAU
A two-star general who was fired as the head of Walter Reed Army Medical Center amid reports of shoddy treatment of wounded soldiers will oversee U.S. biological weapons defense research as commander of Fort Detrick, the Army said Tuesday. Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, a physician who works in the Army surgeon general's office in Falls Church, Va., will command both Fort Detrick in Frederick and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command there, Army spokesman Paul Boyce said.
Weightman had been at Walter Reed for six months when The Washington Post began publishing stories in February about recovering soldiers languishing in dilapidated housing and their families complaining of inattentive administrators..........
..............Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said it was widely believed that Weightman's departure from Walter Reed had ruined his chances for another prominent command post.
"The way Walter Reed turned out should be a career killer," Rieckhoff said. "If Weightman's getting a second chance here, I think the Army needs to explain why the turnaround happened."..............
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