What is it with this "new military"

I have 26 years military service in my background. Am a retired officer and served in a variety of assignments - infantry and base support operations in the Army. I commanded two units and had the privilege of working in a 3-star headquarters (where my desk sat just outside the general's office)...

I spent three years in that 3-star headquarters. There were, of course, many many people who were consider "up and comers" in the Army passing by my desk almost daily.

It was a different Army then, I guess than what I am reading and seeing with the crap going on with General Petraeous (Army) and General Allen (Marine Corps). For example, it was very rare that I even spoke with the General as day-to-day activities went along. That was before the advent of personal computers and email accounts, of course...

But how in the hell does a 4-star general (evidently, Allen) get somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 emails with a two-titted bimbo know-nothing who can write well?

I have been on the internet with various email accounts ever since retiring in 1990. If the "relationship" with that woman extended to 24-months and if he had only 20,000 emails that would mean there were 833 emails per day every day!

That is one hell of a lot of communicating going on!

It would seem that the Army I knew is not the Army of present day times...

4-star generals are busy guys!
By everysooften | 11/13/2012 09:27 AM | 2 comments
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  • I like the play on the "new military," but in terms of extramarital affairs, there's nothing new happening today than in any other time. You make one point that from your perspective it was before PC's and email accounts, and that's one aspect, but to me it's the public's infatuation with having to know the personal details of the lives of others. Eisenhower had an affair, Ridgeway was known to be a "ladies man" (and a lot of them too!), and Roosevelt, while in office, lived with his paramour. All these men were judged by their successful effectiveness on their jobs; their private affairs were those--private affairs. Maybe I'm trying to make a tenuous connection (or one that does not exist), but this current imbroglio is a result of the culture wars were it's become political expedient to make political points off people's private lives be it an affair, being gay, being pro-choice or a myriad of other little differences that were once private. I wished we judged people solely by how well they did/do there jobs rather than who they are sleeping with or some other tawdry event. I feel we would be a lot better off, and being doing better, if we kept our noses out of the private affairs of each other.
    furball 11/14/2012 02:03 PM
  • Correction to the math:
    if it was 20,000 emails in a 24-month period that would be 833 emails a month - more like 27 per day...

    still a lot of communicatin goin on...
    everysooften 11/13/2012 10:08 AM