[MindBender26]

>The link shows only the document. Where does the information in the thread come from about the rankings?

Six years experience in being ranked, ranking and reviewing others rankings (writing a "concurring review" of the original review)

This situation was heavily covered in the military press for a number of years, leading to current system where they try, with some success, to prevent "ranking inflation"

Think Hack also wrote about it in one book or memo.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Doesn't this present a real conundrum for Hackworth? On the one hand he now has a golden opportunity to stick it to Bush, since the media is no doubt pounding on his door and would give him the unimpeachable savior Clarke-treatement with wall to wall appearances for him to defend Kerry's war record. On the other hand, defending and spinning an elitist faux-medal-tosser's poor reviews would pretty much destroy his 'I'm all for the grunt' populist image with vets, right?