The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General of the Army Omar Bradley - May 24th, 2003

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley ^

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for sahring about your Uncle and the Fort Garry Horse.

[tame]

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[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Yes, Omar was a good general. However, for my money it was Patton who was very much underutilized. If Patton's ideas for exploiting the 24 hours after Overlord's initial successes had been implemented, it is entirely possible that the Allies would have been at the Rhine within 10 days.

[SAMWolf]

If you really think about some of then things PAtton did tat got hoim into trouble, he could be the US's first General who had problems with not being "PC" enough

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Certainly the first since the beginning of the 20th century. Although U.S.S. Grant was under fire for being a drunkard.

[SAMWolf]

He may have been a drunkard but he got the job done.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

True, my point being that he wasn't very PC at the time

[SAMWolf]

Yep. Being PC doesn't get the job done. We need more un-PC generals and politicians.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I don't care if you are PC as long as you are right. However, if history is anything to go by, being PC (or politically expedient as it used to be called) and being right are generally diametrically opposed.

[SAMWolf]

My big problem with PC is that it causes more problems and doesn't solve the original problem. In the Military, being too PC gets people killed.

[SAMWolf]

It hasn't stopped.

The pinglist is "under new management". We lost some people from the pinglist. I can have you put back on if you'd like.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks you. You're back on. Should get pinged tomorrow. Snippy_about_it is posting the thread for me for the next few days.

[OKC Patriot]

Remove

[Southack]

Bump for Bradley!

[SAMWolf]

Thanks foir the bump.