The bank's 871-foot-high headquarters, one of the tallest buildings in the Southeast, is sometimes called the Taj McColl, in reference to the bank's former chief.
All were working with what Wong calls "a surprising lack of detailed guidance from higher headquarters".
He left us no doubt as to how important this was to our higher headquarters.
Gen. [Walter ] Wojdakowskiand the staff should have seen that urgent demands were placed to higher headquarters for additional assets.
As the report's authors note: "Higher headquarters did not provide the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) with a plan for Phase IV.
Calhoun's warning was broadcast on the frequency assigned to Charlie Company and not on the task-force frequency, thus eliminating its chances of being monitored at higher headquarters.
This might have limited the number of violations, but it would also have signalled to higher headquarters that violations did occur.
A briefing by the staff for the commanding general is a daily ritual at division-level and higher headquarters in the United States Army.
That inquiry had recommended the creation of a pilot program to dispatch military mental health workers to the field at the brigade level, not just at higher headquarters.
Since none of the planning details of the operation had been presented to higher headquarters, it was impossible for staff officers there to evaluate the intelligence information with any degree of sophistication.
Koster ordered an investigation, but, as the Peers commission was told by Colonel Jack L. Treadwell, who became division chief of staff in late 1968, it was not filed with higher headquarters, "because it made the division look bad".
