https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/maj-gen-gary-patton-sharp-director-steps-down-retires-after-an-investigation-is-it-time-for-a-female-director-does-sex-matter <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Im sure there's more to this story that will come out later, especially since he had "no comment" which is what your lawyers tell you to say.<div>How is it the leaders of these programs keep getting in trouble?  Im honestly just sick of it.</div><div>Do you think a woman could change things?  Is it sexist to even suggest that?</div> Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:33:25 -0500 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/maj-gen-gary-patton-sharp-director-steps-down-retires-after-an-investigation-is-it-time-for-a-female-director-does-sex-matter <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Im sure there's more to this story that will come out later, especially since he had "no comment" which is what your lawyers tell you to say.<div>How is it the leaders of these programs keep getting in trouble?  Im honestly just sick of it.</div><div>Do you think a woman could change things?  Is it sexist to even suggest that?</div> SSG Robert Burns Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:33:25 -0500 2013-12-19T10:33:25-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/maj-gen-gary-patton-sharp-director-steps-down-retires-after-an-investigation-is-it-time-for-a-female-director-does-sex-matter?n=23788&urlhash=23788 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>From what I've heard about this guy, good riddance. Assaults actually went up 30% under his watch. MAJ Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:38:07 -0500 2013-12-19T10:38:07-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/maj-gen-gary-patton-sharp-director-steps-down-retires-after-an-investigation-is-it-time-for-a-female-director-does-sex-matter?n=23827&urlhash=23827 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Regardless of why MG Patton is retiring, the sex of the SHARP director is and should be immaterial. Doing what is RIGHT is not a matter of gender but of values. If the director can't do the right thing, HE or SHE should be fired.  SFC Stephen Hester Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:29:47 -0500 2013-12-19T12:29:47-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/maj-gen-gary-patton-sharp-director-steps-down-retires-after-an-investigation-is-it-time-for-a-female-director-does-sex-matter?n=23858&urlhash=23858 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think it's pretty obvious that this retirement is more closely related to the prison-condition coverup than the increased SHARP reports. I agree that an increase in reporting is a GOOD thing. <br /><br />"Meanwhile, the Pentagon's inspector general announced this fall that it had determined Patton and his boss, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, had improperly tried to hinder the staff at their training command in Afghanistan in 2011 from talking to investigators about poor conditions at a hospital there."<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/military-sexual-assault-pentagon-maj-gen-gary-patton-sen-kirsten-gillibrand/4042995/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/military-sexual-assault-pentagon-maj-gen-gary-patton-sen-kirsten-gillibrand/4042995/</a> SFC Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:32:52 -0500 2013-12-19T13:32:52-05:00 2013-12-19T10:33:25-05:00