A few key points:
--uncorroborated and anonymous reporting
--this is first reporting, and first reports are almost always wrong
Army General Pressured Assessment Panel to Help Career of 'Ineffective' Officer | Military.com
Summary of the above: a three-star Army general allegedly intervened in the command selection process on behalf of a subordinate who happened to be a female officer. The battalion selection board at first recommended unanimously against that officer's selection, citing the officer's "counterproductive leadership." After the general's intervention, the officer was allowed a second shot at a board panel, which is apparently not the way things are done; I guess you'd usually have to wait a year.
Then, the second board also found the officer unfit for command.
...and then she came out on the command list anyway, which prompted the leaking of the details that led to the above story.
I don't think I know the general in question although I may have met him in passing once, and I almost certainly don't know the officer. I do know that this kind of thing happens far too often, and we, as an Army, are the ones who suffer. This type of thing, if true, only serves to promote personal agendas and allows toxic leadership to infect even more people as the officers not fit for higher leadership find it thrust upon them anyway.
