The LA Times is reporting that several Army officers could face disciplinary action related to the Ft. Hood terror attack.
The Army believes Major Nidal Hassan was promoted up through the ranks when he clearly should not have been.
The review found that Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, repeatedly failed to meet basic officer standards for physical fitness, appearance and work ethic, but that superiors allowed his medical career to advance.
"Had those failings been properly adjudicated, he wouldn’t have progressed," and could have been forced out of the armed services, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the review’s findings had not been made public.
Instead, the investigation found that for much of Hasan’s career, supervisors were blinded by his resume, believing they had found a rare medical officer: someone with a stellar undergraduate record, prior service in the infantry and intimate knowledge of the Islamic faith.
The officers responsible for his promotions could face disciplinary action and hold the ranks of colonel and below.
The Times article goes on to cite a lot of bureaucratic mistakes and the need for more stringent oversight of this or that.
What the article and more importantly the Army fails to address is the culture inside the military that allowed these mistakes to occur at all. There is no place in America where political correctness is more entrenched than in the military.
Officers need to feel comfortable that their careers will not be ruined if they report a fellow soldier believed to hold extremist views. Muslims are part of the “protected class” and no one wanted to be accused of racism or anti-Muslim bigotry for reporting Hasan.
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