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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Quite possible, and if so, she would be quite disappointed in some of the comments here.
"Loss of confidence" could be anything from a poor showing on a command inspection to an "inappropriate relationship" and a hundred things in between. With some of the recent political shifts on FR, there is no way I would be caught posting or browsing this site on a DoD computer (were I still employed by the DoD). In fact, that could even cause a CO to be relieved.
Yes, thank you.
Roger that: well said.
Majoring in Late 20th century African American writings isn’t a good sign.
Majoring in Late 20th century African American writings isn’t a good sign.
There are a fair number of excellent African-American authors, but I can’t imagine an American university would offer a degree involving any of them.
I suspect they did and this is the result.
One would be willing to wager is that there are no more black female army colonels in the US Army than could be counted on one hand.
Command refused to say if Wilson had been fired? I didn’t think the military fired people.
That many? Gee...
The Black woman was done in by the Peter Principle.
She was promoted to her level of incompetence
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