Navy Times is reporting that the Defense Undersecretary for wounded warrior care and transition policy was sacked.

Koch said he believes the decision was unjust and that he resigned “under duress” after Stanley told him he had no confidence in him. The Pentagon had no comment.

“No explanation was given, although I pressed for one,” he said. “No prior indication of dissatisfaction with the work of this office was cited.”

Maybe this is related to a recent New York Times story where service members were described as being "warehoused" in transition units:

But interviews with more than a dozen soldiers and health care professionals from Fort Carson’s transition unit, along with reports from other posts, suggest that the units are far from being restful sanctuaries. For many soldiers, they have become warehouses of despair, where damaged men and women are kept out of sight, fed a diet of powerful prescription pills and treated harshly by noncommissioned officers. Because of their wounds, soldiers in Warrior Transition Units are particularly vulnerable to depression and addiction, but many soldiers from Fort Carson’s unit say their treatment there has made their suffering worse.

Comment: It's easy to empathize with Noel Koch's plight. The DoD is a massive bureaucracy with many many layers. It's hard to enact change from the top down or the bottom up. The military just can't win with the wounded warrior issue. Operational units need to be in the business of warfighting not running residential treatment programs. How can the military find the sweet spot between rehabilitation and transitioning a service member to the VA's medical system? This issue goes beyond the scope of what the DoD can do. Society as a whole needs to step up and be included in running these treatment programs.