I wonder if Chuck ever got a dig in on the old man, getting that extra star. What am I thinking? They were both Marines.
Of course, he did!
Of course he did. Remember when AUM Shinrikyo bumbled that Sarin release in the Tokyo subway in 1995?
President Clinton called the JCS and their cats and dogs together and said, "Yaa'll haave anythang that kin respond to somethang like that? <Clinton drawl and accent>
All the generals and admirals tuned to look at each other hoping one of them would speak up and wishing they had the answer.
The CMC bent over the table and said, "We do sir." "Welll, awright there, I figgered we'd have somethin like that," said POTUS.
On the drive back to the Navy Annex, General Krulak's cats and dogs said, "but, but, sir, we don't have anything like that."
The Commandant said, "We will by next week. Make it happen."
I was at Lejeune then. All units were giving up Marines and Corpsmen to form a unit they called Chemical Biological Incident Response Force. CBIRF drew gear and vehicles from units all across the base. All personnel had to report with their TO weapons and gear. They were playing MOPP 4 football in the middle of the day.
S-3 called me in and said, they need one more IDC. I said, they already have the senior corpsman billet filled so I'll pass.
Six years later when they moved to Indian Head, I left BUMED 15 months early to take the Senior Chief billet at CBIRF.