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President Trump gave a scary warning at a dinner Thursday night with military leaders saying, "You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm," he said. "It could be the calm... before... the storm." Asked what the storm would be, "Is it Iran, ISIS, what's the storm?" one reporter called out — Trump replied, "you'll find out." JUST IN: "Maybe it's the calm before the storm," Pres. Trump says alongside US military leaders. "You'll find out." https://t.co/NMljtvsnJF— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 5, 2017

ST. LOUIS - Gen. Omar Bradley once said: "Thirty-two years in the peacetime Army taught me to do my job, hold my tongue, and keep my name out of the papers." But last week's papers listed a dozen retired generals and admirals who allied themselves with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Other retired officers are expected to rally behind President Bush. Their involvement goes against the grain of U.S. military tradition, several scholars say. What's more, say scholars and one retired general, this involvement packs the possibility of problems. Other retired generals call that view nonsense. They say retired military...