Major Nidal Hasan wasn’t just a homicidal loser, as it turns out: He was a damned poor officer and psychiatrist.
On May 17, 2007, Hasan’s supervisor at Walter Reed sent the memo to the Walter Reed credentials committee. It reads, “Memorandum for: Credentials Committee. Subject: CPT Nidal Hasan.” More than a page long, the document warns that: “The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan’s professionalism and work ethic. … He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism.” It is signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Moran…
The memo ticks off numerous problems over the course of Hasan’s training, including proselytizing to his patients. It says he mistreated a homicidal patient and allowed her to escape from the emergency room, and that he blew off an important exam.
According to the memo, Hasan hardly did any work: He saw only 30 patients in 38 weeks. Sources at Walter Reed say most psychiatrists see at least 10 times that many patients. When Hasan was supposed to be on call for emergencies, he didn’t even answer the phone.
Sure, send him overseas.
And, while we’re at it, promote him to Major before deployment.
Not only does being a Musim give you the right to aboslute freedom of speech, it puts you on the fast track for promotion unlike any other “program”.
“F**k-UP and Move Up”
I sincerely hope the full investigation that comes out of this shines the light of “Truth” on the devastating power of “Political Correctness”… (although I doubt it, too many in political circles afraid of wizz’n on the third rail).
A little too eerily similar to some of the PC treatment of women, in a post… certain 1991 convention… Maybe if Admiral Stan Arthur was a Muslim… he’d be lifetime CNO now.
-JC
They clearly had enough to cashier this guy long ago. Why didn’t they? Diversity bully PC perhaps? Almost certainly.
Alas…as this story continues to evolve…drip by painful drip…a sinking realization has begun to set in…
…this does not nor will not reflect favorably on the PC addled, “non-seagoing ground service”…nor should it…the stupid and the incompetent, at all levels, must be punished. Best
Having sat on an O-4 promotion board, I can’t fathom how the Army’s promotion system must work to let this guy pass.
Another minor but interesting revelation has just popped up though. Go to page 29 and scroll down about midway.
http://www..gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf
I have no basis for this other than my own experience in the way…way back…line officers i.e. combat arms, combat service support,ordinance,aviators ect. are generally treated the same by their respective promotion boards who hew closely to strict army and branch promotion standards…
…the medical/dental/legal types are a breed apart…we know it and they know it…they run their own show…have little in common and seldom, if ever, socialized with the line types/knuckle draggers…questions of professional competence and ultimate promotion is handled through their chain of command…where, in my opninion, the fault will ultimately lie…this guy stood out like a turd in a punchbowl…he wouldn’t have lasted a day in a line unit. Best
That link may have too many . after the WWW. Try this:
http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf
The weak work ethic may be a blessing. With this knowledge about him, they let him near 30 soldiers. Some if not all in a weakened mental state and him in a position of authority. Is someone going through his patients to assess the need for damage control?
Not to mention he was on the Prez’s transition team for security in America…just the kind of talent needed on the inside to provide top cover.
I thought only the best of the best got to determine policy in the nation…oops! I forgot we are going to set a new precedent by having warriors tried in civilian courts.
Maybe the best of the best is too strong a term, eh?
And of course this information about the security team has been so widely spread about by the MSM, n’cest pas? Can’t turn on CNN without seeing it mentioned…
Not surprizing that he was retained and promoted. On top of it all, he is a doctor. The Army is also allowing another doctor, a Sikh, to maintain his uncut hair and beard. Religious freedom, et all, likely driven by the dire need for medical professionals.
As for dire need, etc., I can imagine that, if you were an actual medical professional, you might be less inclined to want to serve if it was in the company of dirtbags like Hasan in a PC climate that kept looking to other way.
forgot the link
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/28/sikh.us.forces/index.html
I want to say something but it’s all been said before.
makes me sick, check.,..
Trying them in a civilian court, please see above.
you know, the first thing I thought, living in the suburbs of NYC is that I would stay away fronm the city…
Thirty patients in thirty-eight days?! In the small USNH Emergency Department where I work, we see that many on a busy day. I doubt it needs to be said here, but not answering the phone when on-call is equivalent to being UA. WTF was this guy doing all day? Someone should report him to the Inspector General for fraud, waste, and abuse of the tax payers money! What a useless dirtbag.
I think the issue of transferring a problem is also a factor. “He’s a fuckup, but he completed A-school so let’s get him out to the fleet.”
You never transfer a problem.
beebs