I knew it would be a hard transition. That first day, my secretary called me and said she'd been stuck in a traffic jam for 3 1/2 hours. That was inexcusable. |
There was a time when we didn't have military policemen at the gates of Army posts. Taking the guards off the gates saved the Army money and manpower. But because of terrorist activities in the mid- and late-'90s, and because of intelligence information, that idea changed. By 2001, we were upgrading security on posts. |
They were on the ground by October. |