[Buffalobob]

The part about Walter Reed is inaccurate. Problems were known to exist for well over a year before the political pressure became too great for the White House/Pentagon to ignore. I do not know if the CO took a fall for someone else who would not give him the funds to make the improvements necessary or whether he never requested the money to fix the problems. I wondered about it at the time whether he was scapegoated or simply too stupid to recognize the magnitude of the powder keg he was sitting on.