A top Army general suspended earlier this year following a Military.com investigation into his attempts to influence a subordinate officer’s promotion is asking Army Secretary Christine Wormuth to be placed back into command.
Gen. Charles Hamilton, who as head of Army Materiel Command oversaw much of the service’s logistics operations, wrote a letter to Wormuth on Friday asking to be reinstated. Hamilton, who is Black, claimed in the letter that he had to intervene in the Army’s Command Assessment Program, or CAP, selection last fall because he felt the process is racist and would unfairly handle the selection of the Black subordinate officer.
The four-star general was swiftly suspended in March after reporting revealed he pulled strings for his subordinate, lobbying at least three generals on the assessment panel and successfully pushing to get the officer a second board just days after the first, despite the fact she had been found unfit for command.
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“I respectfully ask that you allow me to resume command and continue leading our soldiers and civilians in one of the Army’s most important and impactful commands,” Hamilton wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Military.com. “I have been brutally honest about my concerns with the Command Assessment Program’s disparate impact on Black officers.”
He also claimed that Military.com…
