Waste in the Navy
Rear Adm. Robert Halder disciplines Dr. Mitchell Grayson for inexcusable conduct in borrowing the Navy’s surgical instruments (with his superiors’ permission) to do charity surgery on Tijuana children (“Doctor Bitter Over Accusations That Put Him Under Navy Microscope,” June 7).
This same Adm. Halder authorizes $25,000 worth of surgical treatment on a Navy woman, including three trips to Atlanta, for surgery that could have been done locally by well-qualified physicians and at no additional cost to the government (“Reprimanded Navy Doctor Cites Example of Waste,” July 4).
It scares me to think that the Navy and the lives of our servicemen are dependent on the judgment of someone as totally devoid of common sense as Admiral Halder.
HELEN E. STENGER
Encinitas
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