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8. On a sidenote, Admiral Jimes Stockdale was a dud

Reply to demwing (Original post)

Sat Sep 1, 2012, 02:00 PM

Sep 2012

Most accounts of his career after returning from Vietnam indicate he was carried by the Pentagon and his brothers in arms, out of respect. He received rubber-stamp promotions and was given non-critical positions because he had long since reached his level of incompetency. Perot never understood this, he only saw the image the Pentagon wished to project.

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Jim Stockdale - does that name sound familiar? [View all] demwing Sep 2012 OP

The news said that Willard asked him personally to speak Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #1

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Welcome to DU! XemaSab Sep 2012 #5

I was really young at the time and I remember it perfectly XemaSab Sep 2012 #4

On a sidenote, Admiral Jimes Stockdale was a dud Brother Buzz Sep 2012 #8