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Army wife: How CGSC managed to screw up my wounded warrior husband

A wife writes: My husband was part of the wounded warrior education initiative and was placed in the military history dept at CGSC. He had only one class group and wasn’t even able to finish it due to getting notice. The army paid a lot of money to get him ready for this job and ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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A wife writes:

A wife writes:

My husband was part of the wounded warrior education initiative and was placed in the military history dept at CGSC. He had only one class group and wasn’t even able to finish it due to getting notice. The army paid a lot of money to get him ready for this job and I believe he had no chance to keep his job. My husband gave a lot to his country including limb. He had great reviews from his students and fellow instructors. He had asked if he should get his PhD a couple months into being at CGSC and was told to wait. Which of course his lack of PhD was part of the reason he lost the job he loved and was very good at. When CGSC placed these wounded warriors they knew that they wouldn’t have a PhD right off the bat. The wounded warrior project went all the way to Texas to recruit my husband, moved him to Kansas, paid for his masters, paid for his salary while going to school, gave him one class group and then let him go. I’m sure there would be a lot of taxpayers out there that wouldn’t be too happy to have no return on their investment. I have been around the military my whole life and for the first time I am very disappointed in how they have handled a situation. My husband feels as though he was set up for failure and that yet again the army has failed him.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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