Posted on 04/06/2007 6:21:45 PM PDT by SandRat
Custer? Didn’t a guy named Custer run into a bit of trouble with his command?
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The Legacy of CUSTER’s U.S. 7th Cavalry Regimental 2nd Battle of the Little Big Horn = Victory:
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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2nd Battle of the Little Big Horn-1965
(Photos)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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Heh-I saw him in Qatar in 2004 (he was a one star then too). Not a name you’d forget.
BUMP
Thank God Fast is gone!!!!!
Hey, change of topic, does anybody have some good info. they can post in a new thread on the THAAD test today? (I guess it was today.) I saw it on my local news - looked like a successful intercept. I did a search here & didn’t see anything on this last test.
Having worked as an officer (1LT at the time) in a Division Staff, I think the best rank to judge how a person will handle higher rank and responsibilities is at the Major or Lieutenant Colonel levels. They've forgotten what it was like to be a Butterbar and generally speaking (lol) they have "stars in their eyes." If they're an A$$-HAT then, they'll be worse wearing stars.
When I was in the 9th ID back in the 1980's we were the so called High Technology Test Bed for the entire military establishment. We were testing the new weapons systems coming online within the next 20 years. We tested the HUMVEE and Fast Attack (Dune Buggies used by the SEALs) vehicles, later adopted.
As such the celebrated Dog and Pony Show was an almost continual event. I interacted with more General Officers than you might find at the puzzle palace of eschelons above reality (Pentagon). 90% of them were a$$hats. But the good ones...were REALLY good. Omar Bradley types.
“...Fort Huachuca...”
It was established during the Durante administration. ;’)
I knew Weinstein when he took command of the 525 MIG at Ft Bragg in 1977. He was the most foul-mouthed, grungy officer I had ever met in all my time in or around the military. He pounced on the term “dirty fingernail Army” as a descriptor of front-line troops [vs REMF admin types] and showed up every day with dirt under his fingernails and grimy hands to show the 18th Corps CDR that he was a “dirty fingernail soldier”. [For those of us with actual combat tours under our belts, we designated him as a suck-up and a patent phony.]
I was a detachment commander then; one saturday, he called in all the commanders and chewed us out royally because the troops had torn up the new barracks. He demanded that we start disciplining the troops to stop the problem. I suggested that he turn the problem over to his CSM who was sitting next to him, since handling the troops discipline was the CSM’s job, not ours — and that he should give the CSM the backing he needed to get the job done. Weinstein turned to the CSM and said “Is that right?” and the CSM growled back “Yur goddam right, Colonel!” Turned out old Sydney had never really dealt with troops before and had no idea what sergeants really did for a living. And, that ended the meeting.
I ran into him again at the Pentagon, when he signed on as the DCSINT. His love of the troops did not extend to those with German surnames. He made life miserable for a captain with a German surname, even though they had never met previously; Weinstein simply hated Germans [and their descendants] and regarded them all as Nazis. In the end, he destroyed this captain’s career, just because he was of German heritage.
I have other stories about him, but these two should give you a feel for what a swell guy he was.
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