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Originally Posted by Chas H
1. Officers at the rank of general are widely respected and are responsible for the safety of us and our troops.
2. Congress on the other hand is a bunch of petty bimbos.
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I still see generals every Tuesday and write briefs for one. Many (not all) are respected. Some are tolerated, others feared. You really see a big difference between one-star and two-stars, and an even bigger difference between two-stars and three-stars. You would wonder how some of the two-stars got that far but you can always tell they are going no further.
Four-stars are in a class by themselves.
Cases in point:
I worked for GEN Mike Hagee for nine months when he was the DJ3 of EUCOM before being the USMC Commandant. You could see he was made for greater things.
One meeting with GEN Wesley " Did you know I was a Rhodes Scholar and that meant I studied at Oxford?" Clark, and that was all I needed. Managed to stay clear of him for eight months til I left his command.
I only met politicians when I was a bartender in grad school at Georgetown, making Ted Kennedy martinis in a 20 oz slurpee size.
