Talk:William E. Ward

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Age and Birthplace?[edit]

Pretty standard bio info, folks; where is it? Can we at least get his D.O.B. so we know his age? Next would be birthplace. Third would be a nice paragraph or two on where he grew up, high school, any sports or academics in his youth, if he did ROTC, that sort of thing. Just saw him on CNN (Don Lemon interview) and they said he's served 38 years. So I'm guessing he's at least 60. Any clarification? Thanks.
--Atikokan (talk) 15:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He will indeed turn 60 on April 15, 2010. He's serving his 39th year in the army and will retire this year. claudevsq (talk) 19:05, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Awards[edit]

A basic tenet of Wikipedia is that all content must be verifiable. This means, among other things, that for the subject of an article to have a list of military awards those awards must be supported by inline citations. In addition, a long list of military awards appears to be trivia -- Wikipedia is not a database or indiscriminate collection of information. In general content should only be included if it has been covered by independent reliable sources. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:40, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2001:7e8:c2ae:c201:84fe:c813:4474:bcc0 reverted with the comment: "Do you want to remove the same section from several hundred other 4-star officer articles? Then, I would suggest you indeed discuss that first. WikiProject Biographies" There may be other articles with similar content, perhaps many others, but that doesn't change the fact that, by Wikipedia policy, all content must be verifiable with reliable sources. Put another way, you need to prove to readers that Gen. Ward actually received these awards, instead of just asserting it. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 22:41, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Let's everyone take a deep breath and assume some good faith. There was already at least one ref in the article that substantiated the decorations and badges. I found another one to back up the third DDSM. If one examines the official Army photo in the infobox nearly everything listed in the article is depicted in the photo. Cheers. EricSerge (talk) 04:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

EricSerge, I'm not aware that a photo can serve as a reliable source in this way. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 05:24, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Disgraced general[edit]

On 8 March 2011, disgraced general Ward retired and was succeeded as commander of US Africa Command by General Carter F. Ham. In November 2012, Ward was demoted to three-star general (Lieutenant General) and ordered to pay restitution for using public funds for private travel.

The last resident of Clay House was disgraced AFRICOM commander Gen. William E. Ward. During his tenure as leader of AFRICOM, Ward opened the doors of the Clay House to the military and German community during annual Christmas parties. A recent report by the inspector general accused Ward of misusing his position, wasting government funds and excessive spending on those parties as well as wasting government money on a booklet about the house he lived in. (Source) 2003:DC:8F17:9ABA:A97C:7238:4D6B:4B12 (talk) 22:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]