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Army surgeon general forced out amid Walter Reed scandal

March 12, 2007

Washington, D.C. - Fallout from the scandal involving conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center continued Monday, with what one senior Pentagon official said was the firing of Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley from his position as surgeon general of the Army.

Fallout from the scandal involving conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center continued Monday, with what one senior Pentagon official said was the firing of Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley from his position as surgeon general of the Army.

Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren asked for Kiley's resignation, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates approved the action, the official said. But Kiley instead announced his immediate retirement.

"I submitted my retirement because I think it is in the best interest of the Army," Kiley said Sunday, according to the Army's news release.

Kiley had been made temporary head of the army's premiere medical institution after Army Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman was ousted in the wake of a series in the Washington Post that found soldiers living in deplorable conditions.

However, he was very quickly replaced by Gen. Eric Schoomaker amid criticism that Kiley, who was head of Walter Reed before Weightman, had been aware of the problems at the facility.

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