[Vermont Lt]

Funny you mentioned Patton. When I was a freshmen cadet, he was a guest speaker on campus. They had a senior officer private dinner form him, the ROTC guys (I think Dave Hunt, used to be on Fox all of the time was there), and the University President. I was the waiter for their table. I did well through desert and coffee. I spilled a cup of steaming coffee on the General’s lap.

Obviously he did not kill me. I guess my Army Career took a turn for the worst, three years before I graduated. He was not a happy General. I thought he was kind of a prick, but it wasn’t intentional.

[robowombat]

Patton, Jr. had a severe drinking problem for a long time. I think after he was in effect sacked as commander of the Armor School and Center and his career effectively ended he dried out and stayed on the wagon. I do not know if he was formally in any 12 step program but some of his mannerisms while at AMC led me to believe he had knowledge of the 12 step process and was trying to incorporate at least some of its dictums into his life.

Being GSP’s son must have been hell. How do you live up to that reputation.?Plus GSP must have been a difficult father. He was a frustrated angry man given to some very strange obsessive behaviors in the years when he was an 0-6. He thought his career would end without achieving his ‘destiny’ of high level combat command and that was both a deep and abiding fear and a cause for a constant simmering rage.