Battleland
We expect, first of all, commanders to pick their very best. We don't have data on it, but I'm concerned to this point. Too many of these positions may have been filled in a way in which someone had an honorable record, but was otherwise available, so they were assigned to these what we believe to be critically important positions.
— Army Secretary John McHugh acknowledging to a Senate committee Wednesday, sort of, what many in the service whisper: that too many less-than-stellar officers have been put in charge of the Army’s sexual-assault prevention programs and training efforts.

38 Metric Tons

— An estimate of how much additional cocaine will flow into the U.S. through October because of sequester-mandated cuts to aircraft and ships dedicated to hunting down drug smugglers. Last year, U.S. authorities seized 36 tons of cocaine on American soil. “Just the sequester cuts themselves is more than all the cocaine taken by all the law-enforcement agencies within our borders last year,” Coast Guard Rear Admiral Charles Michel, one of the nation's top cocaine cops, said Wednesday.

$278,000

— How much the Army has paid Major Nidal Hasan since he allegedly killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009 while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" – Arabic for “God is great.” The service says, here, it cannot suspend his pay until he is found guilty.
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