Posted on 12/09/2023 1:20:01 PM PST by 11th_VA
STUTTGART, Germany — The leader of a Germany-based brigade that maintains vast amounts of Army weaponry and supplies has been quietly fired from her position.
Col. Crystal Hills was removed as commander of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade by Maj. Gen. David Wilson, head of Army Sustainment Command, the service said in a statement late Monday.
Wilson fired Hills “due to loss of trust and confidence in her ability to command,” said Kimberly Conrad, a spokeswoman for Army Sustainment Command.
The command refused to say when Hills was fired or who, if anyone, has replaced her at the helm of a unit that plays a key role in ensuring U.S. soldiers are supplied across Europe and Africa. The unit’s mission also involves oversight of a network of pre-positioned weapons depots at locations across Europe. Those sites have played an important role for infantry units rotating in and out of Europe on missions to deter potential Russian aggression against NATO member territory.
The Kaiserslautern-based brigade’s website lists Hills’ former job as vacant. The Army also did not specify where Hills was reassigned.
Hills’ relief is the latest in a string of exits for leaders of brigades, units that serve as the operational backbone of the Army. In the past few years, colonels have been removed from command for reasons varying from toxic leadership to inappropriate relationships and bad judgment in general.
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Diversity “hire?”
Yup, promoted for her color, fired for her incompetence.
More likely it was one of the few good ones left.
Maybe a Kamala type graduate?
Just another adversity hire.
The educational background of a warrior.
Georgia State University
English Literature (late 20th century African Am)
2006 - 2008
South Carolina State University
Bachelor of Arts - BA Professional English
1994 - 1998
Details about the reasons behind such decisions would provide a clearer understanding of the situation.
I don’t undertand. She is still black isn’t she - committing gendering agression by assigning a pronoun without knowing?
Navy has been doing this a lot as well. Same reason on all of them.
Disillusioned minority. Note that many others were removed. Weeding out dissent?
Sounds like sort of a do-nothing job actually. Commander, her job was to deter potential aggresion against NATO. Has Russia attacked NATO? No! So her deterrence worked then, apparently.
Same old story...
Just to add insult to insult, so I presume we also have a lot of positions in say CENTCOM related to deterring terrorist aggression against ourselves and allies. So, was anyone fired as a result of the clear failure of deterrence against terrorist aggression in the case of Hamas? Of course when you are paying Hamas to do what they were perparing to do, maybe your concept of deterrence needs to be rethought, but I am not a diplomatic genius like Blinken or a military genius like Sullivan or Austin.
For a minority female to be fire it must have been a major FU. Or, was she not following the new rules. I’m holding my dry powder until I see more because something ain’t right about this.
Promoted probably because of her ethnicity and gender. It’s like the founder of a successful business putting his idiot kid in charge; just a bad idea.
Lol, Georgia State. And “Professional English.”
They wouldn't do this unless she messed up really badly, obiously.
Uh, conduct an inventory and audit.
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