No embarrasment allowed

Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL), former chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee:

"We got in Gen. Kiley’s face on a regular basis,” Young said, adding that he even contacted the commander of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda in the hopes of getting better care there for the patient with the aneurysm, though doctors at Walter Reed declined to transfer him. …

"We did not go public with these concerns, because we did not want to undermine the confidence of the patients and their families and give the Army a black eye while fighting a war."

Letting the vets rot in order to avoid embarrasing the Army. That's the Republican way of life.