The Army has gone to great extent in travel, interviews, documentation and concern to make sure that each and every allegation was thoroughly reviewed, thoroughly examined and, when appropriate, acted upon either through non-judicial or judicial punishment.
Army reports and Army information, where the Army was looking into allegations and sorting out the situation about detainee mistreatment.
We will need other contractors, obviously, to produce the body armor in the quantities that we need in the quick amount of time that we need. So we are moving with dispatch.
Obviously any time there is an allegation against a general officer of personal conduct, it's taken very seriously. It is looked into and examined and acted upon as appropriate.
Our goal is to continue providing the American soldier with the best, most protective body armor in the world. We are working with soldiers, commanders, the medical community and industry to continue these improvements while ensuring the safety of our soldiers.
People should read into it that age, particularly in our society today, is not the limiter that it once was.
The National Academy is structured in a way that allows it to tap universities, private enterprise and other research organizations for experts.
While this may not rise to the level of a felony crime, it's still serious.
Throughout the past 18 months since he was captured, the U.S. Army has had units in Iraq looking for him or evidence of his location. The U.S. Army lives by a credo known as the warrior ethos, and one of the items in that credo is that we will leave no soldier behind.
Nowhere in any of these previous 2-1/2 years worth of investigations and documents has there been any reference to lions being used in detainee operations.