General Zinni on Sixty Minutes

Subject: General Zinni on Sixty Minutes
From: Howard Berkowitz
Date: 5/27/04 9:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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(ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: General Zinni on Sixty Minutes
From: Ed Rasimus

On 27 May 2004 11:13:38 GMT, (WalterM140) wrote:

Now, all that being said, just who the **** are you to tell me how to
act?


Now Ed, be nice. Remember you are an officer and a gentleman. (grin)


That used to confuse the Army. My mother's commissions called her an
officer and gentleman until she made major.

She confused the system in general -- WWII Chief Aviation Metalsmith
running the airframe maintenance school at Pensacola, went to school on
the GI bill where they wouldn't let her enroll to teach shop, so she
would up with a master's in social work.

She remained an inactive Navy reservist throughout her education, and
somebody marked it down somewhere. When the Korean War broke out, she
tended not to think they needed a lot of airframe people.

They didn't. They needed, however, mental health professionals. She
wasn't just activated as an individual, but was involuntarily
direct-commissioned as 1LT, USAR, and sent off to a hospital in
Heidelberg.

I've never run across this before or since. Drove the personnel people
absolutely nuts.


She is indeed an officer and a gentleman.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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