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Kills with Guns
Just finished the book Ed. A good read. The most depressing part is that
once again, it's clear that the military works like too many other human endeavours. Who you know matters more than what you know in terms of how the organization runs. And in a very real way, like other organizations, skill actually works AGAINST promotion. Good pilots are more likely to take risks and pay the price, good politicians serve their constituents instead of their re-election interests, good professors their research instead of their careers, etc. As for the book, one more question: What happened to Sopin? If it's in there, I must have missed how the relationship ended. Oh, and one more question (I sound like Columbo!): it just struck me that in almost every fighter book I've read, heavy drinking features prominently. Was alcoholism (vs. binge drinking) ever a real problem? TV |
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