I would be very, very surprised if there wasn't a long waiting list, or at least a long list they had to choose from, to pick those staff officers and (non-commissioned officers) going over there. |
It's pretty dumb to use soldiers as a wedge issue. It took my breath away; I just couldn't believe anybody could be that dumb. |
Nobody heard about you because there was nothing much happening until the end of the Cold War when it was no longer peacekeeping and things were getting nasty. |
You don't have to have the entire symbolic leadership of the forces and the nation for the fatalities coming back. |