Fast held a variety of command and staff positions in the United States Army. Her tours included serving as the Deputy Chief, Army Capabilities and Integration Center and G9, Training and Doctrine Command; Commanding General,
United States Army Intelligence Center; C2 (Director of Intelligence),
Combined Joint Task Force-7 and
Multi-National Forces-Iraq; J2 (Director of Intelligence), United States European Command; Associate Deputy Director of Operations/Deputy Chief, Central Security Service and S1, National Security Agency; Commander,
66th Military Intelligence Group; G2 (Director of Intelligence),
2nd Armored Division; and commanding officer of the
163rd Military Intelligence Battalion. Fast was nominated to the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame in 2009, and received support from numerous generals, including General
David Petraeus, former director of the CIA, during the nomination process. Fast was the most senior military intelligence officer serving in
Iraq during the period of time when the
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse occurred. Critics believed she should have been held partly accountable for the abuses committed at Abu Ghraib by military intelligence personnel, but she was exonerated by the military. In the
Fay Report, Fast received praise for improving intelligence collection efforts when the Iraqi insurgency was growing in the summer of 2003. Changes she put in place "improved the intelligence process and saved the lives of coalition forces and Iraqi civilians," according to Army Major General
George Fay. ==References==