{"id":441,"date":"2007-06-21T05:48:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T09:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/shoot-out-at-walter-reed\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T15:05:48","slug":"shoot-out-at-walter-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Shoot out at Walter Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a few months ago when I wrote that the problems at Walter Reed were more about the civilian contract labor than about the Army leadership, and that was due to Walter Reed’s location in a bad neigborhood in DC? Well, the Washington Post reports<\/a> just how right I was;<\/p>\n

A security officer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center<\/font> pulled a handgun and fired 10 rounds at a fellow guard during the morning rush hour yesterday at the hospital’s main gate, striking no one but sending stray bullets into two cars and a utility pole, D.C. police said.<\/p>\n

Police said the incident started on hospital grounds just inside the front gate along Georgia Avenue NW after one officer jokingly referred to an armed colleague as “retarded.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, The Washington Post doesn’t see it as employee problem;<\/p>\n

The shooting is the latest high-profile embarrassment for Walter Reed, which has faced scrutiny and criticism over its aging facilities and the treatment provided to wounded veterans. The gated hospital complex is set back from one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The guards involved were contract employees under the supervision of civilians, not military guards. So how can the Washington Post figure this is an embarrassment for the facility? Well, because it sounds better, I guess.<\/p>\n

The only problem I see is that Army decided to use civilians to guard Walter Reed instead of using MPs like they did just after 9-11. But security guards with guns is a problem across DC with the expansion of the need for security\u00c2\u00a0personnel at Federal facilities\u00c2\u00a0and a decreasingly eligible\u00c2\u00a0labor pool.<\/p>\n

My sources at Walter Reed say the argument was over a lady, but my sources are notoriously gossipy, so I’ll stick with the Washington Post’s account – but like I said on Monday, these problems can be fixed by moving the medical facility to Bethesda as determined by the BRAC – if we can get past the Democrat crybabies in\u00c2\u00a0Congress who are more worried about traffic jams on Wisconsin Avenue (between trendy Bethesda and trendier Georgetown).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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