This is a story about the neo-conservative agenda and operations at the pentagon vis a vis nuclear weapons and the firing of General Kevin Byrnes...
There isn't much meat to the story, but it does raise some very interesting questions and concerns.
Nuclear Training Drill May Have Provided Another Reason For Firing Of Four Star GeneralSuspicions mount as to real reason why Army General Kevin Byrnes was fired for sexual misconduct only months prior to retirement. Sources close to the Pentagon say Rumsfeld has wanted to get rid of Byrnes for more than three years.
August 15, 2005
By Greg Szymanski
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Controversy around a simulated nuclear terrorist attack, called Exercise Sudden Response to be held Aug. 15- 19 at Ft. Monroe, may have provided another reason for the recent firing of General Kevin P. Byrnes, the head of a prestigious Army unit coincidentally taking part in the same nuclear training exercise.
In a highly unusual occurrence, Gen. Byrnes, 55, was relieved of is duties as commander of the prestigious Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Fort Monroe, several months short of retirement for what Army brass claims to be sexual misconduct and what insiders say involves an affair with an enlisted female.
Dismissed earlier in the week, Gen. Byrnes has been unavailable for comment.
Under Army regulations, the affair is an actionable offense if found to be an adulterous relationship, but the oddity in the charges against Gen. Byrnes is that he was legally separated from his wife when the alleged sexual misconduct occurred...read the rest of the story