Analyst's note:  Has anyone seen this man's picture in the main-stream news?  It reads like this couple were training for a stint in the White House when the "Big-House" would be more appropriate. 

"The four-star general who headed U.S. Africa Command used military vehicles to shuttle his wife on shopping trips and to a spa and billed the government for a refueling stop overnight in Bermuda, where the couple stayed in a $750 suite, a Defense Department investigation has found.

A 99-page report alleges excessive unauthorized spending and travel costs for Gen. William "Kip" Ward, including lengthy stays at lavish hotels for Ward, his wife and his staff members, and the use of five-vehicle motorcades when he traveled to Washington.

It said that Ward, who held a leadership post at Fort Bragg in the 1990s, and his wife, Joyce, accepted dinner and Broadway show tickets from a government contractor during a trip on which he went backstage to meet actor Denzel Washington. The Wards and several staff members spent two nights at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the report said.

The allegations, coming after a 17-month investigation, are an embarrassment to the Army and to Ward, who had claimed a place in history as the military's first commander of U.S. Africa Command.

[....] A common theme running through the report was Ward's insistence that his wife travel with him at government cost, even though it often was not authorized and she had few official duties. It said he routinely stayed in high-priced suites in luxury hotels rather than in standard rooms or cheaper locales."

[....] Ward also came under fire for "needless and extravagant" gifts he distributed to others, including farewell tokens, holiday parties and souvenir books.[....]"