[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 178 (Thursday, December 20, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2374-E2375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                COLONEL KARL ``KASEY'' WARNER RETIREMENT

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                       HON. SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO

                            of west virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 20, 2001

  Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Colonel Karl 
``Kasey'' Warner of the United States Special Operations Command who is 
retiring from the United States Army after 27 years of active duty.
  Colonel Warner has served this great country with dedication and 
honor for over 27 years in uniform, but his service to his country has 
not ended. He will be taking on the duties of the United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia for the term of 
four years.
  Colonel Warner began his military career as a cadet at the United 
States Military Academy

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at West Point. It was there that he graduated and was commissioned a 
Second Lieutenant in 1974. Colonel Warner's career epitomizes 
leadership and selfless service. He has served his country well both as 
a line officer in Field Artillery and later as a Judge Advocate.
  Colonel Warner attended West Virginia University School of Law and 
graduated in 1980. He has served primarily as a trial litigator and has 
been an instructor of criminal law at the Army Judge Advocate General 
School. His career has taken him from the parade grounds of West Point 
to foreign lands and harsh living conditions--he was the joint task 
force and multinational force staff judge advocate at Port-au-Prince, 
Haiti in 1994-1995.
  In Haiti, he designed a procedure for detaining Haitians--as a matter 
of policy they determined that detainees should be afforded the same 
treatment accorded to detained persons under the 1949 Geneva Prisoner 
of War provisions (food shelter medical care)--the treatment was so 
good by Haitian standards that often people would ``confess'' in the 
hopes of being detained. However by all accounts the Joint Detention 
Facility was an unqualified success. Colonel Warner also arranged for 
the appointment of four judge advocates to be authorized to serve as a 
one-member foreign claims commissions and the appointment of three more 
judge advocates to serve as a three-member commission.
  Prior to becoming the prestigious Special Operations Judge Advocate, 
Colonel Warner was the deputy legal counsel to the Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff. In whatever challenge he was tasked with, he 
excelled and constantly personified the words General Douglas MacArthur 
made famous and synonymous with West Point: ``Duty, Honor, Country.''
  Colonel Warner's military decorations include the Defense Superior 
Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal with 
oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf 
clusters, Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster; two Joint 
Meritorious Unit Awards; and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. He 
is qualified to wear, in addition to Master Parachutist Wings, the 
coveted Ranger tab and Air Assault wings. He has also been accorded the 
honor of receiving the Jump Wings of the Australians, British, and 
Saudi Arabians.

  Colonel Warner and his wife, Joanie, have four children: Margaret who 
is a lieutenant with the Army Corps of Engineers in Germany; Frances, a 
speech pathology graduate student at Vanderbilt University; Kole, who 
serves with the West Virginia National Guard and attends West Virginia 
University and Travis, age 13.
  It is with great pride and honor that I wish Kasey and his family the 
best as he retires from the United States Army and continues his 
service to our great country as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern 
District of West Virginia. He has set an inspiring example of 
dedication to the defense of freedom and to the protection of the basic 
liberties that the citizens of our country enjoy by taking his turn at 
``standing on the wall'' and now continues to defend freedom and 
liberties as a U.S. Attorney.

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