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Whenever there was a serious problem, such as abuse of troops, bad morale, theft of gmvt funds, bad medical care, really bad leadership, racial problems, etc, Abrams would send a team of two of us to check it out. Usually one E-8/E-9, very experienced, older WW2 vet who served with Abrams in Europe and one O-3/O-4 combat arms stud (the badder-assed looking the better). ...

This system got the problem solved in 24 hours...

Not with SMAJ of the Army William O. Woolridge, it didn't. And so far as I know, for the slackoff officer responsible for him who let him get away with his crap, who never was relieved or reprimanded....

And Abrams really went over the line with his charges against Col Rheault and CPT Marasco and the other 5th Group SFers, charging them with murder for eliminating a NVA double [triple?] agent on CIA orders prior to the Operation Dewey Canyon invasioon of Cambodia. Since SF's pre invasion recon of objectives for that incursion and the *Operation Menu* location of likely airstrike targets were conducted by presidential order, the defense for the officers so charged could very well have resulted in an impeachment for LBJ had the war's congressional opponents found out then what was coming. Why LBJ didn't just do to Abrams what Truman did to MacArthur is above my pay grade, but I do know that some SF folks had a backup plan in the event anything had happened to any of those being held at Abram's orders while they were in custody. Aren't those helicopter crashes of senior officers tragic?

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[MindBender26]

Woolridge was a joke and a crook. He was also at DOD, not RVN.

As far as any SF Opn in the event of any events re: the bosses, it was a planned raid on LBJ, Long Bihn Jail, the USARV stockade. It never really got past the talking at the O-Club stage, despite rumors to the contrary.