"The Army's collapse after Vietnam was presaged by a desertion of mid-grade officers (captains) and non-commissioned officers," Scales wrote a year ago. "Many were killed or wounded. Most left because they and their families were tired and didn't want to serve in units unprepared for war....
Total bullcrap. Large numbers of Captains and Majors were involuntarily RIFTed. I was there.
7 posted on 03/19/2008 9:04:13 AM PDT by colorado tanker
(Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)