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To: bushpilot1

US Army, unfortunately. During the Vietnam war. Seemed to be a pretty common attitude among NCOs and officers. Blind obedience was in. But I never heard it put so bluntly until that day.


101 posted on 03/11/2009 12:32:45 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

I was a combat arms (armor) NCO during that period.


107 posted on 03/11/2009 1:47:24 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: LibWhacker; bushpilot1; April Lexington

“US Army, unfortunately. During the Vietnam war. Seemed to be a pretty common attitude among NCOs and officers. Blind obedience was in. But I never heard it put so bluntly until that day.”


Bullshit, you have a personal anecdote and that is fine but that was not a common attitude.


123 posted on 03/11/2009 4:29:55 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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