| has gloss | eng: Major General Michael S. Tucker is an Army General currently serving as as the Deputy Commanding General of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and North Atlantic Regional Medical Command. He serves under Major General Eric Schoomaker. On March 9, 2007, The Washington Post reported Army Vice Chief of Staff General Richard A. Cody’s announcement that Tucker, a prior-enlisted soldier and a non-member of the Army Medical Corps, had been selected to take over the Deputy Commander position at Walter Reed as part of a major “leadership restructuring at Walter Reed…designed to attack problems and lapses exposed” in the growing scandal over poor healthcare and treatment conditions for wounded combat outpatients at the historic medical facility, exposed in an undercover expose by Post reporters. |
