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Diers at Walter Reed Hearing Committee On IS THIS ANY WAY TO TREAT OUR TROOPS? THE CARE AND CONDITIONS OF WOUNDED SOL- DIERS AT WALTER REED HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MARCH 5, 2007 Serial No. 110–40 Printed for the use of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/index.html http://www.oversight.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 40–852 PDF WASHINGTON : 2008 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:03 Mar 20, 2008 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 C:\DOCS\40852.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 COMMITTEE ON OVERSISGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM HENRY A. WAXMAN, California, Chairman TOM LANTOS, California TOM DAVIS, Virginia EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York DAN BURTON, Indiana PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland JOHN L. MICA, Florida DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts CHRIS CANNON, Utah WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee DIANE E. WATSON, California MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts DARRELL E. ISSA, California BRIAN HIGGINS, New York KENNY MARCHANT, Texas JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia BRUCE L. BRALEY, Iowa PATRICK T. MCHENRY, North Carolina ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of VIRGINIA FOXX, North Carolina Columbia BRIAN P. BILBRAY, California BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota BILL SALI, Idaho JIM COOPER, Tennessee ——— ——— CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland PAUL W. HODES, New Hampshire CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, Connecticut JOHN P. SARBANES, Maryland PETER WELCH, Vermont PHIL SCHILIRO, Chief of Staff PHIL BARNETT, Staff Director EARLEY GREEN, Chief Clerk DAVID MARIN, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts, Chairman CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts DAN BURTON, Indiana BRIAN HIGGINS, New York JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania DAVE TURK, Staff Director (II) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:03 Mar 20, 2008 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\40852.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on March 5, 2007 .............................................................................. 1 Statement of: Geren, Peter, Under Secretary, U.S. Army .................................................... 1 Kiley, Lieutenant General Kevin C., M.D., U.S. Army Surgeon General; Major General George W. Weightman, Commander, Walter Reed Army Medical Center; and Cynthia A. Bascetta, Director, Health Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office ............................................................... 98 Bascetta, Cynthia A. ................................................................................. 113 Kiley, Lieutenant General Kevin C. ........................................................ 98 Weightman, Major General George W. .................................................... 112 Schoomaker, General Peter, Chief of Staff of the Army; and General Richard A. Cody, Army Vice Chief of Staff ................................................. 159 Cody, General Richard A. ......................................................................... 159 Schoomaker, General Peter ...................................................................... 159 Shannon, Staff Sergeant John Daniel; Annette McLeod, wife of Corporal Wendell ‘‘Dell’’ McLeod; and Specialist Jeremy Duncan ........................... 37 Duncan, Specialist Jeremy ....................................................................... 51 McLeod, Annette ....................................................................................... 44 Shannon, Staff Sergeant John Daniel ..................................................... 37 Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by: Bascetta, Cynthia A., Director, Health Care, U.S. Government Account- ability Office, prepared statement of ........................................................... 115 Davis, Hon. Tom, a Representative in Congress from the State of Vir- ginia, prepared statement of ........................................................................ 35 Kiley, Lieutenant General Kevin C., M.D., U.S. Army Surgeon General, prepared statement of ................................................................................... 101 McLeod, Annette, wife of Corporal Wendell ‘‘Dell’’ McLeod, prepared statement of ................................................................................................... 46 Shannon, Staff Sergeant John Daniel, prepared statement of ..................... 40 Shays, Hon. Christopher, a Representative in Congress from the State of Connecticut, prepared statement of ........................................................ 30 Tierney, Hon. John F., a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, various prepared statements ......................................... 3 Waxman, Hon. Henry A., a Representative in Congress from the State of California, various prepared statements ................................................ 57 Yarmuth, Hon. John A., a Representative in Congress from the State of Kentucky, prepared statement of ............................................................ 82 (III) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:03 Mar 20, 2008 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\40852.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:03 Mar 20, 2008 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 C:\DOCS\40852.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 IS THIS ANY WAY TO TREAT OUR TROOPS? THE CARE AND CONDITIONS OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT WALTER REED MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2007 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS, COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:02 a.m., Joel Auditorium, Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington, DC, Hon. John F. Tierney (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Tierney, Waxman, Cummings, Lynch, Yarmuth, Braley, Norton, McCollum, Cooper, Van Hollen, Hodes, Welch, Shays, Platts, Duncan, Turner, and Foxx. Also present: Representatives Davis of Virginia; Cummings, and Norton. Staff present: Brian Cohen, senior investigator and policy advi- sor; Margaret Daum, counsel; Molly Gulland, assistant communica- tions director; Earley Green, chief clerk; Leneal Scott, information systems manager; Dave Turk, staff director; Davis Hake, staff as- sistant; Andy Wright, clerk; David Marin, minority staff director; A. Brooke Bennett, minority counsel; Grace Washbourne, minority senior professional staff member; Nick Palarino, minority senior in- vestigator and policy advisor; and Benjamin Chance, minority clerk. Mr. TIERNEY. A quorum being present, the Subcommittee on Na- tional Security and Foreign Affairs’ field hearing entitled, ‘‘Is This Any Way to Treat Our Troops? The Care and Condition of Wound- ed Soldiers At Walter Reed,’’ will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee as well as the ranking minority member of the sub- committee be allotted 5 minutes to make opening statements. Without objection, that is ordered. I would also like to first introduce Under Secretary Peter Geren who would like to welcome people here in a brief statement. STATEMENT OF PETER GEREN, UNDER SECRETARY, U.S. ARMY Mr. GEREN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the sub- committee. I am the Under Secretary of the Army now. Next Fri- day I will be the Acting Secretary of the Army. Last Friday night the Secretary asked me to take on the health care issues for the (1) VerDate 11-MAY-2000 11:03 Mar 20, 2008 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 C:\DOCS\40852.TXT HGOVREF1 PsN: HGOVREF1 2 Army in the meantime, not wait until I become Acting Secretary next Friday. On behalf of the Army I want to welcome all of you to Walter Reed. As a former Member of Congress, I want you to know I ap- preciate and value the role that the Congress and this committee plays in the life of our Army. We treasure the partnership we have with the Congress. We understand that the Constitution has forged the partnership, from the beginning of this country until as long as this country lasts, between the Congress and our U.S. Army. We have let some soldiers down. And working with the Congress and with the leadership of the Army all the way down to the lowest ranking civilian or uniformed military, we’re going to fix that prob- lem. In fact we’re in the process of fixing it. Your involvement is going to help us do that. We’re glad so many of you are here today showing this kind of interest in Walter Reed. So many of you have been out here many, many times, been a part of the life of Walter Reed. We’ve worked with Members and staff over the last several years in dealing with related problems, and we appreciate very much the role that the Congress plays. There is a ballad that is part of the soldier’s creed: I will never leave a fallen comrade. That is on the battlefield, it’s in the
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