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‘HEAVEN IS NO PLACE FOR TERRORISTS’ Militants believe they won’t be admitted to heaven if killed by woman BY SETH ROBSON Stars and Stripes
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To view more photos of PKK men and women in Makhmur, Iraq, go to stripes.com/go/pkk Zekia Karhan, 26, left, and Felice Budak, 24, right, visit with a few of their male Kurdistan Workers’ Party counterparts in Makhmur, Iraq. JOSHUA L. D EMOTTS/Stars and Stripes
MAKHMUR, Iraq — It’s an Islamic State fighter’s worst fear: to be killed by a woman. In northern Iraq, where Kurdish forces are rapidly regaining territory held by the Islamic State, that’s becoming a real risk for the extremists. There are plenty of female Kurdish soldiers on the front lines. They’re smaller than their male comrades, but they talk just as tough as they prowl the battlefield clutching automatic rifles and vowing vengeance for those victimized by the Islamic State. “We are equal with the men,” said Zekia Karhan, 26, a female guerrilla from Turkey who
is with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. “Every responsibility for a man is the same for a woman. We are treated equally, and that is why we are fighting.”
‘ Every responsibility for a man is the same for a woman. We are treated equally, and that is why we are fighting.
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Zekia Karhan female guerrilla from Turkey who is with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
The female PKK troops accessorize their olive drab uniforms with colorful scarfs, but they’re as thirsty for battle as anyone. “I fired on this position from the mountain,” said Felice Budak, 24, another PKK fighter from Turkey, as she stood next to a window pierced by several bullet holes in Makhmur, a town that the PKK helped recapture from the Islamic State this month. Budak said she wasn’t scared during the battle. Islamic State fighters “are very scared of death because they are only here to kill people,” she said. “I don’t mind doing it over and over again. I’ve already fought in Turkey, Iran and Syria.” SEE PAGE 3
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COVER STORY Zekia Karhan, front, walks with two of her fellow Kurdistan Workers’ Party female fighters in Makhmur, Iraq.
Karhan, 26, talks with some of her male counterparts on Aug. 23.
The leftist PKK has been fighting the Turkish government for decades and is classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. But its fighters have been going into battle alongside Kurdish peshmerga in recent weeks and are credited by some locals with turning the tide of battle in Iraq. The female PKK troops get angry when they talk about the mass rapes and sex slavery that have been hallmarks of the Islamic State. “Everywhere they go, they kill and do bad things in the name of Islam,” Karhan said. “They captured a lot of women, and they are selling them in Syria for $100. They rape women and behead them in the name of Islam.” Karhan said she’d heard stories about the extremists’ fear of being killed by the opposite sex. In northern Iraq, it is said that the
Islamic State fighters, who are exclusively male, believe that they won’t be admitted to heaven if they are killed by a woman. At Makhmur, that may have been the fate of several Sunni extremists gunned down by the PKK. “Nobody knows if there is heaven or hell,” Karhan said. “How can they know they will get 27 virgins? To me, Kurdistan is heaven, and Kurdish women
‘ To me, Kurdistan s heaven, and Kurdish women are angels. Heaven is no place for terrorists.
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Zekia Karhan female guerrilla from Turkey who is with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
are angels. Heaven is no place for terrorists.” Budak said she could wear makeup and buy nice clothes if she stayed in Turkey, but then she wouldn’t have her freedom. “I am happy here with my freedom in my own country,” she said. The PKK commander in Makhmur, Tekosher Zagros, praised his female troops but got upset when a linguist confused his group with the peshmerga — Kurdish government forces. Zagros was also upset that the PKK hadn’t received support from the Iraqi government. He noted the terrorist designation by the U.S. and NATO. “We understand it is because of Turkey,” he said. “Turkey is your friend. But you can see now that we are fighting the terrorists. It is clear now who are the terrorists.” Zaynab Olivo contributed to this report. robson.seth@stripes.com Twitter: @SethRobson1
Tekosher Zagros, commander of the PKK in Makhmur, talks about joining forces with the peshmerga to fight the Islamic State in northern Iraq. JOSHUA L. D EMOTTS/Stars and Stripes
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‘CORROSIVE CULTURE’ By Heath Druzin Stars and Stripes
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Veterans Affairs inspector general’s report paint a grim picture of what the VA scandal has meant for ailing veterans. While investigators were “unable to conclusively assert that the absence of timely quality care caused the deaths of these veterans,” the report does detail patients dying while waiting for care (and indications the waits may have contributed) and some whose health likely deteriorated due to long wait times. One of the most alarming aspects, given the military’s focus on suicide prevention, is the apparent callousness that VA officials and staff showed toward suicidal patients. One, who was known to the staff and had attempt-
ed suicide four times, killed himself after a four-month wait for an appointment at the now-infamous Phoenix VA Health Care System. The report reaches this conclusion: “Better availability of an appointment for this patient might have changed the outcome.”
Report lists problems throughout VA system BY TRAVIS J. TRITTEN Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs problems discovered in the inspector general audit released Aug. 26 go far beyond the Phoenix hospital system. Staff across the country including top leadership and managers were accused of ethical lapses and held responsible for delays in veteran care at hundreds of facilities. Here are some of the significant audit findings: � Various hospitals and clinics used six distinct schemes to manipulate patient wait times, including keeping paper lists outside the official electronic schedule, listing next available slots as veterans’ desired appointment dates, and canceling and rescheduling solely to reduce the appearance of a wait. � Despite the widespread manipulation, top VA management waived a requirement requiring certification of scheduling practices at hospitals and clinics during 2012 and 2013, which could have uncovered the activity. A VA official present when the decision was made said medical facility directors put up “significant resistance” and were “concerned about certifying results that may be later found inaccurate” by the IG. � Instead of a certification, the VA allowed facility directors to do a self-review using a set checklist. SEE PAGE 6
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Obama: ‘We are focused on this’ President, new VA chief pledge action in speeches to the American Legion BY H EATH DRUZIN Stars and Stripes
On the day a government watchdog issued a damning report on the troubled Veterans Affairs system, President Barack Obama and his new VA chief sought to reassure American veterans that the government is committed to taking care of them. “What I want you to know directly from me is that we are focused on this at the highest levels,” Obama said Aug. 25, addressing the national conference of the American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans group, in Charlotte, N.C. The back-to-back speeches came just ahead of the release of a report from the VA inspector general that said it is investigating cases at 93 VA health care sites, including some criminal investigations being coordinated with the FBI. The Department of Veterans Affairs is scrambling to improve health care amid the ongoing scandal, which cost former Secretary Eric Shinseki his job. The department has been under fire since a whistleblower revealed that hundreds of patients at the Phoenix VA Health Care System had been sidetracked from care at VA hospitals, alleging some died while on long wait lists. Administrators had cooked the books to make it appear that patients were getting care more quickly — a problem identified throughout the nationwide VA system. Congress passed a $17 billion bill last month enabling the VA to hire more doctors and nurses and to fire underperforming officials. “The systematic underreporting of wait times resulted from many causes, to include the lack of available staff and appointments, increased patient demand for services,
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Corrosive culture: the case files In late summer 2013, a man in his early 60s with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and hepatitis B and C, had severely depressed cardiac function, indicating heart failure and increased risk for sudden death. He had an implantable defibrillator placed in his heart but it had been removed. A Phoenix cardiologist recommended that he have a similar device implanted in four to five weeks. In early 2014, still without the procedure, the man collapsed in his kitchen and died three days later. According to the report, timely placement of the device “might have forestalled that death.”
A man in his 70s with an elevated prostatespecific antigen was scheduled for a urology appointment in three months, but the appointment was canceled with the notation “provider not available.” Four months after the initial request, the patient’s primary care provider requested nonVA urology care, which the VA denied. After four more months, the VA facility closed out the request. Nearly a year after his initial request, the patient was seen by a non-VA urologist and was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
A man in his late 40s with a history of depression came to the Phoenix VA ER with his parents after reporting paranoid delusions. After being evaluated by a nurse, he declined hospital admission, saying he would report to the hospital the next morning. Instead, he committed suicide. The report concludes that with “depressioninduced” psychosis, the patient should have been involuntarily admitted for treatment.
A man in his late 60s with hypertension, diabetes, cirrhosis, congestive heart failure and emphysema came to the Phoenix VA emergency department complaining of weakness and diarrhea. He was put on a list for a consult. After two hospitalizations at non-VA hospitals, the man died. Three months later, Phoenix VA staff called to schedule his appointment.
A man in his mid-30s with a history of hospitalization for suicidal thoughts and anxiety called for an appointment with the Phoenix VA and was placed on a wait list for five weeks, then scheduled for an appointment in an additional four weeks. Three months after his initial contact, he was given a referral to a mental health clinic.
his commitment to root out He laid out a plan to improve and an antiquated scheduling poor-performing officials. system,” according to the Aug. service at health facilities, “If you engage in unethical 26’s inspector general’s report. including an updated schedulpractices or cover up a serious “The ethical lapses within ing system and a recruitment problem, you should be and VHA’s senior leaders and middrive to fill doctor vacancies. will be fired,” he said. managers also contributed to In a statement, Paul RieckObama also laid out five the unreliability of reported hoff, the CEO and founder of priorities: increasing funding access and wait time issues.” Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for health care, tackling an Investigators said they of America, praised Obama’s Wesubstantiate proudly offer mortgage products from theofU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). epidemic suicide, eliminatcould not the announced executive actions, These safe, flexible products with favorable terms are available to veterans and that addressing ing the VAloan backlog, decreasing most damning claim at the but warned NMLS #402135 duty personnel. veterans homelessness and Phoenixactive VA — that 40 patients problems with veterans care making it easier for servicedied while waiting for appoint“can’t be just a one-off event ments. The report substan- members to buy homes. The or speech filled with more Features and did Benefits • Purchase, speech came shortly the tiate claims that facilities had rate/term refinance, and cash-out refinanceafter options promises.” 1required • No down VA released numbers sayfalsified data, sometimes the paymentat “Announcements and prom• Fixed- and adjustable-interest ing that homelessness among behest of management. rates available ises are easy, and we’ve been • Seller-assistance those who serve. options veterans was down 33 percentSupporting “Immediate and substanhere many times before,” he • Low minimum credit score requirement since 2010. tive changes are needed,” the said. “The American people have report says. Veterans of Foreign Wars to know that even as our war in In his Eligible speechProperties last week, National Commander John Afghanistan comes to an end RichStroud Obama said 19 Moore, Mortgage • 1-he said in a news Banker release to will 4-unitissue property our obligation to this genera- NMLS# executive • orders, PUDs including he is 211177 “hopeful that the initiation has just begun,” he said. automatically enrolling troops • Condominiums tives announced by President 855.313.8138 Newly appointed VA chief toll free: leaving the service in ahomes mental • Manufactured Obama today will provide the Bob McDonald, who has been health program and expandnecessary course corrections” traveling country to speak ing research andavailable services Programs onlyfor to qualified borrowers.the Programs subject to change without notice. VA service. to improve veterans since starting traumatic brain injury Underwriting termsand and conditionstoapply. Some restrictions may apply. Stars and Stripes reporter Travis 1Down payment the job less than month post-traumatic stressmay disorder, be required for loan amounts over one $417,000 based on VATritten county contributed loan limit. to this report. ago, also took the floor at the two of the most common injudruzin.heath@stripes.com American Legion conference. ries for veterans. He affirmed Twitter: @Druzin_Stripes
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Of 127 VA health care facilities that answered the self-review, 114 said they were in compliance and were identifying and avoiding inappropriate scheduling activities. � IG investigations of waittime manipulation at 93 facilities nationwide are still ongoing after hundreds of complaints were filed in recent months. � In the run-up to the ethics lapses around scheduling, the VA decided to eliminate its chief ethics officer overseeing the integrated network of health care facilities during a reorganization in 2011. � Loopholes in the VA’s Vista electronic scheduling system, which the IG called “old and cumbersome,” were exploited by staff to game wait times. A failed project to replace it spent five years and more than $75 million but “failed to deliver a useable product because of ineffective planning and oversight.” tritten.travis@stripes.com Twitter: @Travis_Tritten
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n September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison. Their objective was to secure the exchange of prisoners, one of whom was Dr. William Beanes, the elderly and popular town physician of Upper Marlboro and a friend of Key’s who had been captured in his home. Beanes was accused of aiding the arrest of British soldiers. Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans. At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment. Because Key and Skinner had heard details of the plans for the attack on Baltimore, they were held captive until after the battle, first aboard HMS Surprise and later back on HMS Minden. After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city’s last line of defense.
Ft. Henry bombardment 1814
Baltimore, who anonymously made the first known During the rainy night on September 13th, 1814, broadside printing on September 17; of these, two Key had witnessed the bombardment and observed known copies survive. that the fort’s smaller “storm flag” continued to fly, On September 20, both the Baltimore Patriot and but once the shell and Congreve rocket barrage had The American printed the song, with the note stopped, he would not know how the battle had “Tune: Anacreon in Heaven”. The song quickly beturned out until dawn. On September 14th, U.S. came popular, with seventeen newssoldiers at Ft. McHenry had raised papers from Georgia to New Hampa huge American flag to celebrate shire printing it. Soon after, Thomas a crucial victory over the British Key had witnessed Carr of the Carr Music Store in Balforces. timore published the words and muthe bombardment sic together under the title “The Star Key was inspired by the American and observed Spangled Banner”, although it was victory and the sight of the large that the fort’s originally called “Defence of Fort American flag flying triumphantly M‘Henry”. The song’s popularity above the fort. This flag, 30x42 feet smaller “storm in size, with fifteen stars and fifteen flag” continued to increased, and its first public performance took place in October, when stripes, had been made by Mary fly, but once the Baltimore actor Ferdinand Durang Young Pickersgill, together with sang it at Captain McCauley’s tavother workers in her home on Bal- shell and Congreve ern. Washington Irving, then editimore’s Pratt Street. rocket barrage had tor of The Analectic Magazine in Aboard the ship the next day, Key stopped, he would Philadelphia, reprinted the song in wrote a poem on the back of a letter November 1814. not know how the he had kept in his pocket. At twibattle had turned By the early 20th century, there light on September 16, he and Skinwere various versions of the song ner were released in Baltimore. He out until dawn. in popular use. Seeking a singular, completed the poem at the Indian standard version, President WoodQueen Hotel, where he was staying, row Wilson tasked the U.S. Bureau of Education and titled it “Defence of Fort M’Henry”. with providing that official version. In response, Key gave the poem to his brother-in-law Judge Jothe Bureau enlisted the help of five musicians to seph H. Nicholson who saw that the words fit the agree upon an arrangement. Those musicians popular melody “The Anacreontic Song”, by Engwere Walter Damrosch, Will Earhart, Arnold J. lish composer John Stafford Smith. This was the Gantvoort, Oscar Sonneck and John Philip Sousa. official song of the Anacreo ntic Society, an 18thThe standardized version that was voted upon by century gentlemen’s club of amateur musicians in these five musicians premiered at Carnegie Hall on London. Nicholson took the poem to a printer in December 5, 1917, An official handwritten version
of the final votes of these five men has been found and shows all five men’s votes tallied, measure by measure. Commemorative plaque in Washington, D.C. marking the site at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue where “The Star-Spangled Banner” was first publicly sung. The song gained popularity throughout the 19th century and bands played it during public events, such as July 4th celebrations. On July 27, 1889, Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy signed General Order #374, making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the official tune to be played at the raising of the flag. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered that “The Star-Spangled Banner” be played at military and other appropriate occasions. The playing of the song two years later during the seventh-inning stretch of the 1918 World Series, and thereafter during each game of the series is often cited as the first instance that the anthem was played at a baseball game, though evidence shows that the “StarSpangled Banner” was performed as early as 1897 at opening day ceremonies in Philadelphia and then more regularly at the Polo Grounds in New York City beginning in 1898. In any case, the tradition of performing the national anthem before every baseball game began in World War II. On November 3, 1929, Robert Ripley drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon, Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, saying “Believe It or Not, America has no national anthem”. In 1931, John Philip Sousa published his opinion in favor, stating that “it is the spirit of the music that inspires” as much as it is Key’s “soul-stirring” words. By a law signed on March 3, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover, “The
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Star-Spangled Banner” was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America. No American flag played a major role in the War of Independence. Most of the stories about the flag’s importance during the Revolution—including the famous tale of Betsy Ross sewing the first flag for General Washington—emerged much later, after the Star-Spangled Banner had become the nation’s most significant and cherished icon. At the time the American flag was created, it did not attract much attention from the general public; its primary function was to identify ships and forts. Ordinary Americans in the Revolutionary era turned to a variety of other symbols—the eagle, Lady Liberty, George Washington— to express their patriotism and define their national identity. This would start to change during the War of 1812. Often referred to as the “Second War of When Key declared Independence,” the conflict inspired a that “our flag fresh wave of patriowas still there,” tism in a generation he fused the too young to remember the Revolution. physical symbol When Key declared of the nation with that “our flag was universal feelings still there,” he fused the physical symbol of patriotism, of the nation with courage, and universal feelings of resilience. patriotism, courage, and resilience. By giving the flag a starring role in one of the most celebrated victories of the war, Francis Scott Key’s song established a new prominence for the flag as an expression of national identity, unity, and pride. And by giving it a name—that Star-Spangled Banner—Key transformed the official emblem into something familiar and evocative, a symbol that Americans could connect with and claim as their own. The flag was no longer just an emblem of the nation; it became a representation of the country’s values and the ideals for which it stands. In the years since 1814, in times of celebration and crisis, pride and protest, people raise the flag to express their ideas about what it means to be American. Story credits to Wikipedia and the Smithsonian websites.
Star Spangled Banner Flag on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology
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Friday, September 5, 2014 Lt. Col. George S. Patton Jr., 1st Tank Battalion, stands in front of a French Renault tank in the summer of 1918.
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t’s been 100 years since the world went to war in the summer of 1914, launching a global conflict that destroyed empires and claimed the lives of 9 million combatants and tens of millions of civilians. World War I, the “War to End All Wars,” not only redrew the map of Europe and the Middle East but also revolutionized the battlefield with technological breakthroughs such as the airplane and a new “killing machine” given a harmless-sounding name for security purposes: the tank. Advances in technology, including the internal combustion engine, gave life to an idea first conceived by inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci in 1487. The tank enabled troops to advance through barbed wire and
Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci came up with the idea of an armored vehicle that could be driven into battle in 1487. It wasn’t until four centuries later that tanks would find their way into the fight.
withering machine gunfire to deliver fire against terrified ground troops. Those early tanks were clumsy and in many cases less effective than their designers had hoped. In the years between World War I and World War II, however, the Germans realized the potential of armored warfare as a
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In 1915, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill created a committee to tackle the challenge of trench warfare. The result was the British 14ton “Little Willie” tank.
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A M3 light tank crew is seen in Coburg, Germany, in April 1945. The M3 series tank was built for the U.S. Army and is credited as the genesis behind today’s U.S. armor force.
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way to improve mobility and avoid troops from getting bogged down in World War Istyle trench warfare. Tanks became the centerpiece of the Nazi Germans’ “blitzkrieg,” or “lightning war” tactics — powerful offensive strikes that enabled Germany to sweep over much of Europe in 1940 and 1941. Seeing defenses crumble in France, the Soviet Union and elsewhere, the Allies accelerated their own tank production, rolling out thousands of armored vehicles that proved decisive in battles from the fields and hedgerows of Europe to the jungles of the Pacific. Since then, the tank has become an integral part of modern warfare, proving its value in Korea, Vietnam and battlefields of the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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A U.S. Marine Corps patrol is being led by an M26 Pershing Heavy Tank as they hunt for North Korean guerrillas in a mountainous region of Korea in January 1951.
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Marines from the 4th Tank Division, Twentynine Palms, Calif., roll down a dirt road on their M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank during training at Exercise Africa Lion in April 2012.
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WASHINGTON — An Army two-star general in Japan who delayed investigation of a sexual assault complaint against an officer with whom he had a long history will be ejected from the service and lose a star in retirement, the Army announced Aug. 27. “Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh has directed that Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison, former commander of U.S. Army Japan, be retired as a brigadier general,” according to an Army statement. “Maj. Gen. Harrison was investigated and disciplined for failing to properly address a sexual assault allegation in his command.” Federal law requires officers to retire at the last pay grade at which they served satisfactorily. The Army formally reprimanded Harrison for his handling of the allegation late last year and he submitted retirement papers this past spring. The military has been dealing with a growing scandal over sexual assault in the ranks for years. Advocates for victims of military sexual assault told Stars and Stripes earlier this year that Harrison’s actions were more proof of the tendency of male commanders to shield favored subordinates accused of
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Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison is seen during a ceremony at Camp Zama, Japan, Jan. 10, 2013. More than two months elapsed between the woman’s allegation of sexual assault and her first contact with Army Criminal Investigation Command, the IG reported. In the report, the IG concluded Harrison had: Failed to investigate allegations against a colonel he had known since the 1980s. Failed to treat the victim with dignity and fairness. Investigated the allegation himself instead of referring it to criminal investigators. Failed to remove the colonel from his position despite allegations of a pattern of misconduct. His demotion in retirement is likely to cost Harrison several hundred dollars a month.
sexual wrongdoing. Harrison was suspended from his command position in June 2013 after he was accused of failing to act on a report of a sexual assault by an Army colonel against a Japanese civilian employee. He was later assigned to the Pentagon to serve as director of program analysis and evaluation for an Army deputy chief of staff. According to the Army inspector general, Harrison referred the case to criminal investigators only after a reporter from Stars and Stripes spoke to the victim and inquired with U.S. Army Japan about the allegations. Previously, the general had ordered only an internal investigation of the allegations, in violation of regulations.
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