Fired Walter Reed General to Head Ft. Detrick

The Baltimore Sun in an update yesterday: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-general1113,0,567945.story , reported that Major General George W. Weightman will be the new commander of Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Medical Research & Material Compound located in Frederick, Maryland.

This is the same General who was fired after the poor conditions that existed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where war veterans receive treatment and care, were made public.

He will be replacing Col. Jonathon Jaffin, a former commander at Walter Reed Hospital who replaced Major General Erin Schoomaker at Fort Detrick. Schoomaker was named the replacement for Weightman at Walter Reed -see Frederick News Post story dated March 20, 2007: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/archives/display_detail.htm?StoryID=66400

The Fort Detrick Compound is undergoing major renovation and expansion some of which is to facilitate biological weapons defense research.

Some residents of the City of Frederick along with Frederick County Commissioner David Gray have questioned as to whether the Government conducted sufficient studies pertaining to where a biological weapons defense research center should be located. Ft. Detrick is located within the City of Frederick, one of the fastest growing communities in the state of Maryland. See Frederick News Post Opinion dated November 12, 2007:
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_editorial.htm?StoryID=67543&section=ed