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Today’s weirdness: looks like an Army 4-star,\u00a0 Gen. Charles Hamilton, got seriously involved in manipulating the promotion of a subordinate.<\/p>\n
Gen. Charles Hamilton, who oversees Army Materiel Command, spent about a month last year trying to pull strings behind the scenes for a female lieutenant colonel to breeze through the service’s Battalion Commander Assessment Program, or BCAP.<\/p>\n
The interference became so egregious that the director of the Army Command Assessment Program, Col. Robert O’Brien, penned a memo chronicling Hamilton’s conduct on Nov. 1, immediately after the lieutenant colonel was deemed unfit twice in two assessment panels within 48 hours.<\/p>\n
The lieutenant colonel’s first assessment panel was on Oct. 30 and was monitored by Hamilton. Monitoring the assessment panel is technically allowed, multiple Army officials familiar with the process explained to Military.com, but is abnormal.<\/p>\n
By a vote of 0-5, the five panel members voted the lieutenant colonel as being uncertified for command, citing “counterproductive leadership.”<\/p>\n
Hamilton immediately asked for the lieutenant colonel to be re-paneled, effectively getting another chance — an unheard-of move, according to some Army officials familiar with the process. Officers who fail typically have to wait a year to try again.<\/p>\n
Between the first panel and the redo, Hamilton called three different panel members — Maj. Gens. Jeth Rey, Trevor Bredenkamp and Hope Rampy — to discuss the lieutenant colonel, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Military.com.<\/p>\n
At noon, the second panel was complete. The lieutenant colonel was again found unfit for command, but this time in a 2-3 vote, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. She was found to have “ineffective” and “counterproductive” leadership qualities.<\/p>\n
In January, the lieutenant colonel’s name was included on a command selection list — strongly suggesting she will take command of a unit soon.<\/p>\n
Military.com is withholding the female officer’s name because it found no evidence of wrongdoing on her part.\u00a0 Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So,\u00a0 no evidence of wrongdoing on the good colonel’s part – so at least it seems we are spared any “sleeping her way to the top” allegations. But his behavior – pressuring the board, contacting the board members, trying to influence its decision making, causing three boards till he got the evaluation he sought – is ‘way over the top. Is this unrequited love? Lust? Did she heroically save his puppy? Who knows.<\/p>\n
Never have heard anything negative on him – but it’s probably a safe bet that Gen. Hamilton may retire soon, though.<\/p>\n
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