[SLB]

No idea what he did, but obviously he is suspect of doing something.

[martin_fierro]

Link?

[July 4th]

A nookie-related offense?

[rawhide]

Sorry to hear about something like this again, but I'm happy the armed services are doing the house cleaning if it is needed.

[TBarnett34]

Did he forget to disinfect his tongs before handling a Koran?

[tfecw]

hmm Used to play soccer with Gen Byrnes's son. LTG Wallace sounds familiar as well.

[Boundless]

He was just promoted to General in 2002,
so this is probably not a situation of
cleaning out Clinton PC deadwood.

"Unlike the Marine Corps, whose credo is that
every Marine is first and foremost a rifleman,
the Army has too many soldiers who have lost
touch with their inner warrior, said Gen.
Kevin P. Byrnes, the Army’s top training general."

[WestTexasWend]

Could this be related to not meeting recruitment goals?

[tfecw]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/09/AR2005080900515.html


Here's another one from 32 min ago. stupid washington post though

[stopsign]

And again this is now breaking news on cnn, funny how I got the news first from FR... : ) <<< me

[IronJack]

My brother was a colonel assigned to TRADOC at Ft. Monroe. He's probably worked with these guys directly.

[RetiredArmy]

Career over. Retire now. Gone. Somebody did a big no-no. Woops.

[xsrdx]

When it's a four star and no mention of the offense, it's highly likely that zipper failure is involved.

No idea here, but were I a gambling man...

[GSlob]

"...obviously he is suspect of doing something."
Or nothing. Indeed, it could give rise to "he was not doing anything, but he WAS NOT DOING ANYTHING!" and other such puns.

[montag813]

Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes has been charged with failing to remove his shoes and prostrate himself when a detainee opened his Koran.

[leadpenny]

Holy Moly! This is big. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another Army 4-Star being relieved, openly, in the last 45 years. Probably one or two, I just can't think of any.

Wesley was brought back early from NATO.
Kernan was forced out at the end of his two years at Joint Forces Command.
Was it Warner (or Wagner) in Panama (SOUTHCOM) who was eased out for Mad Max Thurman just before we invaded?

We are certainly living in interesting times.

[rahbert]

maybe he had computer issues..

[bnelson44]

"matters of personal conduct"

[leadpenny]

Rummy and Myers have a Pentagon news briefing at 1:15. C-SPAN will carry. No doubt questions will be asked about this issue.

http://www.c-span.org/

DEFENSE POLICY
Pentagon Press Briefing
Def. Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers hold a Pentagon press briefing. Despite hopes of reducing U.S. troop strength in Iraq by next spring, Sec. Rumsfeld is expected to respond to questions about the need to raise troop levels in the interim.
TUES., 1:15PM ET, C-SPAN

[leadpenny]

Just as I thought, Rummy deflected the first question. That will be it for now but the nature of the General's misconduct will come out soon, I'm sure.

[kayak]

fyi