Article: Vets: Finally, Some Action.(investigation into mismanagement at Walter Reed Army Medical Center)(Brief article)

Byline: John Barry and Richard Wolffe

For a lot of soldiers, tangled bureaucracy and shabby living quarters are a way of life. Perhaps that's why the brass didn't respond to reports of mismanagement and decay at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center with more urgency. But the grim stories, first reported in The Washington Post, appalled the one person who really mattered: the new secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. He promised President Bush that high-level officials would be held accountable--and seemed to get that when the commander of the hospital, Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, was fired. But then Gates found that the temporary replacement--Lt. Gen. Kevin C. ...

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