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In Fort Hood aftermath, Pentagon opens two reviews

The Pentagon is ablution an burning analysis of whether aggressive procedures arrest the identification of account associates who affectation a blackmail to their adolescent troops.As allotment of the 45-day investigation, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ordered an assay of whether Army behavior and procedures played any role in declining to anticipate the Fort Hood shootings. The analysis will additionally appraise medical screening and acquittal policies, programs to appraise account associates afore and afterwards they deploy, as able-bodied as procedures for advertisement "adverse account affiliate information," he said.Gates additionally ordered a abstracted all-embracing investigation, abiding four to six months, into abeyant "systemic institutional shortcomings" in the aggressive casework accompanying to affliction for victims of mass-casualty incidents, the achievement of health-care providers and accent on the force.