Latrobe is a city in Westmoreland County,Pennsylvania,United States. The population was 8,060 as of the 2020 census. A part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area,it is located near Pennsylvania's scenic Chestnut Ridge. Latrobe was incorporated as a borough in 1854,and as a city in 1999. The current mayor is Eric J. Bartels.
The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational private equity,alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $426 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity,real assets,and private credit. It is one of the largest mega-funds in the world. In 2015,Carlyle was the world's largest private equity firm by capital raised over the previous five years,according to the PEI 300 index. In the 2024 ranking however,it had slipped to sixth place.
Gordon Richard England is an American politician and businessman who was the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and twice served as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC),officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951,was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres (46 ha) in Washington,D.C.,it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces. The center was named after Walter Reed,a U.S. Army physician and sergeant who led the team that confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct physical contact.
Robert Michael Gates is an American intelligence analyst and university president who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and was retained by President Barack Obama. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gates served for twenty-six years in the CIA and at the National Security Council,and was director of central intelligence under President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993. After leaving the CIA,Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group,the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton that studied the lessons of the Iraq War.
Preston "Pete" Murdoch Geren III is an American attorney and politician who served as the 20th United States Secretary of the Army from July 16,2007,to September 16,2009. He is a Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 12th congressional district. He is the president of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation in Fort Worth,Texas and is a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria,Virginia.
Arden Lee Bement Jr. is an American engineer and scientist and has served in executive positions in government,industry and academia.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is a United States military medical center located in Bethesda,Maryland. It is one of the largest and most prominent military medical centers in the United States,and it has provided medical care for several United States presidents since its opening in 1940.
Executive Schedule is the system of salaries given to the highest-ranked appointed officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government. The president of the United States appoints individuals to these positions,most with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. They include members of the president's Cabinet,several top-ranking officials of each executive department,the directors of some of the more prominent departmental and independent agencies,and several members of the Executive Office of the President.
Major General George William Weightman was a U.S. Army Family Medicine physician who was commander of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC). He was relieved of his WRAMC command on March 1,2007,in the wake of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal. He took command of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in November 2007 and retired from active duty on 31 March 2009.
Kevin Christopher Kiley is a former lieutenant general in the United States Army who served as the 41st Surgeon General of the United States Army and the commander of the U.S. Army Medical Command,Fort Sam Houston,Texas. He was commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and North Atlantic Regional Medical Command twice,from 2002 to 2004,and as acting commander,March 1–2,2007. He submitted his request to retire from the U.S. Army on March 11,2007,in the wake of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal,and was removed from his nominative billet as a lieutenant general. Pending retirement,he was assigned to a temporary billet at the General Officer Management Office at the Pentagon in the grade major general. His retirement in the grade of major general was subsequently approved.
Major General Kenneth Lloyd Farmer Jr. commanded Walter Reed Army Medical Center and North Atlantic Regional Medical Command from June 2004 to August 2006.
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal refers to a series of allegations of unsatisfactory conditions,treatment of patients,and management at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington,D.C.,culminating in two articles published by The Washington Post in February 2007. Several cases of patient neglect and shoddy living conditions were reported as early as 2004. "Soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injuries or stress disorders,others with amputated limbs,have languished for weeks and months on end in vermin-infested quarters waiting for a decision on their military status and a ruling on the level of benefits they will receive if they are discharged and transferred to the civilian-run Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare system." When the scandal broke,soldiers were pressured to keep quiet and punished with daily inspections for speaking to the press. Significant public and media attention was generated,which in turn prompted a number of congressional and executive actions,including resignations of several high-ranking officers.
Lieutenant General Michael S. Tucker is a retired United States Army general who served Commanding General of the First United States Army from 2013 until 2016. He formerly served as the Commanding General of the 2nd Infantry Division.
John Collins Harvey Jr. is a former United States Navy four-star admiral who last served as the 31st Commander,United States Fleet Forces Command from July 24,2009 to September 14,2012. He previously served as Director,Navy Staff (N09B) from March 24,2008 to July 23,2009. Prior to that,he served as the 54th Chief of Naval Personnel and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (N1) from November 2005 to April 2008. He retired from the navy after more than 39 years of service.
The 14th Quartermaster Detachment,is a United States Army Reserve water purification unit stationed in Greensburg,Pennsylvania. During Operation Desert Storm,the detachment lost 13 soldiers and 43 would be wounded in an Iraqi Al Hussein ballistic missile attack on 25 February 1991 at Dhahran,Saudi Arabia;the 14th,which had been in Saudi Arabia only six days,suffered the greatest number of casualties of any allied unit during Operation Desert Storm. Eighty-one percent of the unit's 69 soldiers had been killed or wounded.
Michael Bruce Donley is a United States government official who is the director of administration and management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense since May 2021,having served in the same position from 2005 to 2008. In the Bush and Obama administrations,Donley served as the 22nd secretary of the Air Force,amongst other positions. Donley has 30 years of experience in the national security community,including service on the staff of the United States Senate,White House and The Pentagon.
Anthony Jean Tata,is an American retired United States Army officer,author,and government official. He is a retired brigadier general of the United States Army (1981–2009),and later served as a school district administrator for two large school districts in the District of Columbia and North Carolina. He served as Secretary of Transportation of North Carolina from 2013 to 2015 under Governor Pat McCrory. Tata is the author of the Threat series of thriller novels.
Duty:Memoirs of a Secretary at War is a nonfiction book written by Robert M. Gates,a former U.S. secretary of defense. It was published in January 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf. The book recounts Gates's service in the George W. Bush administration (2006–2009) and the Obama administration (2009–2011),including his experiences managing the Afghan and Iraq wars.
