Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates testifies at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and its implications for national security programs in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2010. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also testified. DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad McNeeleyGates Has A Long, Loooong Record Of Firing Generals -- The Danger Room
Two months after he became Defense Secretary, Robert Gates fired his first general: the guy in charge of Walter Reed and its moldy, cockroach-infested facilities for housing the wounded. Then Gates fired the secretary of the Army and forced out the Army’s surgeon general. It signaled a massive shift from the Donald Rumsfeld era, when few senior officers were fired for incompetence. The Pentagon largely welcomed the change. “I can’t tell you how cathartic, how refreshing that was,” Ryan Henry, a top aide to both secretaries, told me.
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