MAJOR GENERAL ANTONIO M. TAGUBA, US Army, CF

12345678910111213141516171819202122functions.” And Maddocks got it, but it took coaching and choosingwords and telling him why.Q. Why was he selected? Was he the only available one?A. He was the XO at-- General Hill made him the XO down atArifjan----Q. Did you ever-- I guess this goes back to, you didn’t haveany of the other choices because there were no other?A. I really didn’t. I had no depth. I had a battalioncommander, by the way I forgot to mention him, Colonel-- LieutenantColonel Allerd, who in the first week of July went back to thestates. He was medivac’d to Germany for a double hernia and thenthey sent him back to the states and he never came back. I had aCaptain, Cortez, who stepped up to the plate and took charge of thatBLD, and he did a great job.Q. You had another Captain, a Captain Merck.A. Captain Merck.Q. Could you elaborate on his conduct?A. Also out at Baghdad Central and I found out about theincident after it had been investigated informally by Sheridan and----Q. So none of these officer misconducts were reported to youinitially until after an investigation was conducted?114