What I Learned from Enlisting in the USAF in 1965

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1. US Army here. Completely agree. You do what you're told.

Thomas E. Ricks had something in his book “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq” that I don’t know I’d ever seen in print, the brass (especially the upper Pentagon brass) see Presidents as temps. They follow orders of course but they know they’ll out last an administration whether it’s 4 or 8 years.