Posted on 05/20/2024 11:15:08 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
Story from ~ 2 Months ago: One of the Army's top generals may have abused his authority and subverted the service's process for selecting senior leadership in what some officials have described to Military.com as a conspiracy to prop up a subordinate officer who was deemed unfit for command.
A Military.com investigation found that Gen. Charles Hamilton, who oversees Army Materiel Command, spent about a month last year trying to pull strings behind the scenes for a female lieutenant colonel to breeze through the service's Battalion Commander Assessment Program, or BCAP. This included directly lobbying at least three generals on the assessment panel and successfully pushing officials to let the lieutenant colonel get a second board two days after she failed the first.
The interference became so egregious that the director of the Army Command Assessment Program, Col. Robert O'Brien, penned a memo chronicling Hamilton's conduct on Nov. 1, immediately after the lieutenant colonel was deemed unfit twice in two assessment panels within 48 hours.
"This was a pressure campaign. [Hamilton] has a lot of influence; this violated the integrity of how the best officers are selected to run units," one general with direct knowledge of the situation told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This was abnormal; it was unprofessional. He should have known better.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Maybe in prior decades, if anything happens to the "affirmative action" general at all, he'll be quietly pushed into retirement with full honors and benefits and not so much as a blemish on his record.
Charles R. Hamilton’s wife, Regina Johnson, is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel.
Are you suggesting that the Lt. Col. in question was his wife?
There are two different lieutenant colonels involved, apparently.
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