Tornado Alley (PROG)

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I've made my peace, this Memorial Day weekend, with Cadet Bone Spur, as follows.

IF he'd found his way into the military and then into command of a rifle platoon in Vietnam, he would have made Lt. Calley seem like Gen. Eisenhower.

Is there anything in the description of Lt. Calley's lack of qualifications, and especially in his verifiably amoral and criminal actions, that doesn't suggest Trump's entire life?

I suppose that the civilian version of fragging could be construed as tell all books and the quotes of those therein.

Too bad that the shrapnel is just words and that Trump is flack jacketed against those by a sociopathic psyche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley

Calley's evaluations described him as average as an officer.[3] Later, as the My Lai investigation progressed, a more negative picture emerged. Men in his platoon reported to army investigators that Calley lacked common sense and could not read a map or compass properly.[6]

A number of men assigned under Calley claimed he was so disliked that they discussed fragging him.[7]

In May/June 1969 near Chu Lai Base Area, Calley and 2 other Americal Division officers were in a jeep that passed a jeep containing 5 marines. The army jeep pulled the marines over and one army officer told the marines "You soldiers better square away!" One of the marines replied, "We ain't soldiers, m***********, we're marines!"

The Army lieutenants dismounted for further discussion of the matter. The ensuing fight ended only after one of the officers pulled his pistol and fired a round into the air.

Two of the officers were briefly hospitalized while Calley was merely beaten up. The marines pleaded guilty at special courts-martial, in each of which it was stipulated they had not known the soldiers had been officers.[8]

Shit, I HOPE that the Jarheads later received the appropriate decorations for correct identification of non-officers.