Wounded Bragg GIs Punished More Often

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Wounded Bragg GIs Punished More Often
March 12, 2009
Associated Press

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - The general in charge of the Army's more than 9,000 wounded Soldiers said Wednesday he is ordering a review of how the ones at Fort Bragg are being punished for minor violations.

Brig. Gen. Gary Cheek said he is asking the Army Surgeon General to look at all discipline that has been taken against Soldiers in the base's Warrior Transition unit to make sure each case was fair.

Cheek's comments come a day after The Associated Press reported that Soldiers in the unit are being disciplined three times as often as those assigned to the base's main tenant, the 82nd Airborne Division. The AP also found that discipline rates vary widely across the Warrior Transition system; some units punish their Soldiers even more frequently than the one at Fort Bragg, while others are far more lenient.

"We are transparent enough in this that we want to make sure that we aren't doing anything bad by our Soldiers," Cheek said in a phone interview from Washington.

The Army set up 35 Warrior Transition units two years ago to help Soldiers navigate the medical system and monitor their progress and treatment following the scandal over shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.


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[NaturalHigh]

1. I read this the other night, and I can't say that I'm surprised.

Appalled, yes, but not surprised.