I went "the other way" in the Army, finding myself in a tropical climate
where the main diet was rice, with a few vegetables and maybe a water
buffalo, when the gunner "forgot" to clear the M2-HB before attempting
to "clean" it. In my (somewhat limited) experience, the officers were
there to get some combat time, and pay, into their service records, as a
stepping stone to further promotion. Net result: the sergeants ran the
Army while the officers "fought the battles" and collected the medals.
Needless to say, I have a very low opinion of high-flying "leaders" that
don't share the hardships of those who are "led".
Ed Gould wrote:
On May 8, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Chase, John wrote:
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It's always the "privates" who get shot, bombed, stabbed, burned, etc.,
while occasionally a "general" will get "forced retirement" but more
often will acquire another "command" with another bunch of
"privates" to
get shot, bombed, stabbed, burned, etc.
Life itself is "unfair". Deal with it the best you can, and when the
time comes, move on.
John,
I agree with you on this issue ... somewhat.....
I was in the Army (over in Germany) and our base was a 'stepping
stone" for generals. They came in a 1 star and one year (more or
less) later they became a 2 star. We weren't even close to the
trench's (so to speak) we were a "command" so no one really got hurt
(per se) by any screwups the General may have caused. In a side issue
(humorous) one of our subordinate bases when polled at 11PM reported
they were under attack by the communist. Since they reported an
attack we had to wake up our General to inform him of the situation.
The colonel (IIRC), in charge of that base, was reduced in rank to a
Captain(?) and was basically told to retire. All this from a sergeant
who couldn't read a code book.
Ed
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