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     COMC Ironside |
To: Captain William Daren, Commanding Officer, USS-Coronado From: Colonel Jeremy Ironside, Commanding Officer, 8th Regiment Cc: Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Gregg, Commanding Officer, 1st Recon Batallion/8th Subject: CMO Conduct Captain, Yesterday at 0926 hours, Commander Alec Reed, under the pretext of medical reasons deleted standing disciplinary orders I had issued to Lieutenant Major Shar in response to the Major’s extreme and insubordinate behaviour towards me earlier. This was an internal Marine matter and should not have been interfered with by any naval officer onboard Coronado. Upon my return to Coronado, I began an investigation into the revocation of my orders and have concluded that your Chief Medical Officer has violated a number of rules and regulations. My investigation revealed as follows: - Interviews with the EMH and several nurses revealed that Major Shar’s (self-inflicted) injury would be in no danger of infection (Cmdr Reed’s pretext for elminating my order) if the wound were treated with a simple hyperantibiotic that would pose no health risks. - An Interview with helm officer Lieutenant Maiko D’rall revealed that Commander Reed’s behaviour towards Major Shar’s confinement to quarters and subsequent rules about visitors was disrespectful. Quote: “Visitors? You don't get visitors. D'Rall is here at my request for medical reasons.” - Commander Reed did not perform any of the necessary procedures for the requested psych consult, and did not take into account the Major might have a psychological problem at any point during his medical work Full transcripts of the interviews, and internal sensor logs, are attached at the end of this memo for your review. As a result, Commander Reed has broken the following rules and regulations: - Conduct unbecoming a Starfleet Officer - Conduct unbecoming a Physician - Undermining the Chain of Command Commander, this is the second time in as many months that one of your command staff has directly interfered in my chain of command (I need not remind you of Commander Smith’s attempt to assign military prisoner Serrold command one of my marine squads for the assault on Lh’owon), and it is beginning to become troublesome dealing with such matters. I suggest you deal with this matter appropriately to assure that another member of your crew never again interferes with Marine operations. Should something like this occur, I will be forced to take the matter of your lack of control over your crew to the Admiralty. Subsequently, should I take the position of Division Commander over all Defender ground forces Lieutenant Colonel Gregg will be in command of the Marines onboard Coronado, and should such a matter occur again while he is in charge, I doubt he will handle the situation as cooperatively as I would. I look forward to your response. =/\= Shar was obviously immensely proud with himself. His arms crossed, a grin on his face as he watched the privates in front of him perform the latrine duty that he had been assigned as administrative punishment. The feeling did not last long, however. For a brief moment, he felt as if something was hanging over him, and he frowned. The feeling disappeared as quickly as it appeared, but before he could go back to smiling and feeling proud of himself, the ghostly, empty voice of Stephen Gregg spoke from behind him. “If I might make a suggestion, Major?” Shar whipped around, startled every so briefly. How had the Major - no, Lieutenant Colonel now, his rank insignia had changed – snuck up on him like that? “What’s that, Colonel?” He replied, avoiding looking directly into empty and seemingly lifeless eyes. Gregg leaned forward slightly, a little too close for Shar’s comfort, but he stood his ground, looking just over the Colonel’s left shoulder. “I don’t know how the marines onboard Renegade handle responsibility, Major, but the Marines onboard Coronado take responsibility for their actions – they do not shirk it.” Gregg paused for a moment and looked over Shar’s shoulder at the privates who were still cleaning the latrines> “Marines on Coronado who do not accept responsibility for their actions do not get responsibility handed to them in return.” Gregg straightened, “if you wish to supervise the cleaning of latrines for the rest of your career, by all means, continue doing it now. If you wish to be a marine and fight for the side of good, then I suggest you change your current method of discharging your administrative punishment.” With that he turned and headed back into the city. |