> One of the things that you might notice if you did that is that I'm not
> talking about general military *personnel,* I'm talking about military
> *leaders.* I'm talking about people who have been in the military for 30
> years, risen to some really high rank, and are qualified to appear on
> national television as military experts, people who are *really*
> in charge
> of the military. Something has to motivate those people to dedicate their
> lives to gaining that position and I think that in a lot of cases, those
> motivations are things that I would have a problem with.
That is the problem. Military leaders haven't been in the military for 30
years. For line animals like me, the military leader I had was an 18 month
wonder straight out of Officer Candidate School. The US military puts even
the lowest Private is some sort of leadership role. So military leaders are
the regular troops who are doing whatever they can to feed thier family.
They just chose to do it in the military. They could have been fire
fighters, police, stock brokers or whatever they wanted. They chose the
military for the same reason some people enter the religious life, they were
called to that vocation.
> I don't have any problem with general personnel and if you were thinking
> rationally about what I wrote you probably would have seen that already.
There was nothing that rationallity would have affected. Your were
criticizing the entire military, from Private to General of the Army with
your generalization of "Military Leaders." Now that you narrow down who you
are criticizing, I have to agree. These so called military experts that the
networks hire are ussually Pentagon hacks who stuck it out through 30 years
of service in spite of themselves and got out. I notice noone has had
Norman Schwartzkoff on that I saw. He was one of the real leaders, that
that guy that NBC had on that wouldn't know a tactic if it bit him.
The real experts in the military are the line animals and thier leaders.
But you wont see them on TV. The Pentagon hacks and parrade ground soldiers
are only expert on shining boots and brown nosing. I have learned that if
it comes out of a PAO's (Public Affairs Officer) mouth, it is probably
wrong.
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Russel
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