The 33-page report, compiled following interviews with officers across the Army, concluded that the Army’s culture is rife with “dishonesty and deception” at all levels of the institutionfrom the most junior members to senior Army officials.
The study’s results come after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel — who officially left his post Tuesday — had raised concerns over ethics in the military. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary, said two weeks ago that Hagel was “deeply troubled” over a spate of ethics investigations in the military.
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The study also comes after a string of high-profile ethics scandals involving senior military leadership in recent years, from a cheating scandal involving nuclear missile officers last year and a still-ongoing federal investigation into one of the biggest corruption affairs in the Navy’s history.
CNN’s Barbara Starr contributed to this report.
