Topic: Kentucky: 3 Soldiers Punished

New York Times
October 18, 2007 By Associated Press
The Army has relieved three soldiers of leadership roles in a unit for wounded veterans at Fort Knox over the death last month of an Indiana National Guardsman in their care, military officials said. A battalion commander, company commander and platoon sergeant have been removed from the unit as an investigation continues into the death of the guardsman, Sgt. Gerald Cassidy, said Maj. Gen. Robert Williams, commander of the Army post. “I have lost confidence in their leadership abilities,” General Williams said. The military did not identify the soldiers. Sergeant Cassidy, 32, was wounded in a roadside bombing in Iraq in June 2006 and arrived at Fort Knox in April 2007. He was found alone in his room Sept. 21, slumped in a chair. An autopsy determined he had been dead for hours before being found.