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I suspect he may not have been able to immediately resign. Career officers are constantly going to various schools and I think each creates a new commitment. I do not know the deal in the Civil War but the WW II brass could not resign in a snitt as far as I know. And I don’t think you can resign during a deployment. . We won the Battle of Gettysburg without Hooker or the additional men he said he needed. . Hackworth was correct. The draftees were a cross section of society. Famous draftees include Elvis, Teddy Kennedy, Ralph Nader....

I just heard that the Green Beret now being pursued for murder—Matthew Golsteyn—is a West Point grad. Sorry to hear that. (I am a West Point grad and Vietnam vet.)All of his supporters, and he seems to only have supporters, essentially say that he is a great guy and the Taliban he killed was a murderous bomb maker, therefore, he did nothing wrong.That is not relevant to the legal case as far as I can tell. His wife and father seem to be saying the Army can’t do this because it was investigated before and seemingly ended. Also, irrelevant. Double...

Today’s WSJ reports that Amazon is now ending the sale of CRaP. That is their inside way of identifying products that “Can’t Realize a Profit.”So the richest man in the world, Mr. E-Commerce himself, Jeff Bezos, has finally figured out in December 2018, that the company he founded in 1994 should only engage in profitable activities. No s***hole country, S*erlock!In fact, he did NOT just figure it out. He knew all the time that his business model was CRaP. What changed is he is having more and more trouble getting away with it.His stock used to have a P/E ratio...

The San Ramon, CA public library is open Saturdays and Sundays. Why is that significant? It means the municipal government has a lot of money. Best city in CA for finding a job My local paper today said WalletHub says San Ramon is the best city in CA for finding a job. Since CA has for years been the best state for finding a job (I assume), that’s saying something.In October, Safewise said San Ramon was the third safest city in CA and the second safest in the San Francisco Bay Area.In September, WalletHub said San Ramon was the best...

I have written ten books on football and baseball coaching. Some who buy them are not coaches, but are just PARENTS of players or FANS of the sport..I think another group should read those books: PLAYERS and PARENTS who want to help their player. My son Dan played football from age 8 to age 22 ending as a tailback in the Ivy League. A month after he graduated from Columbia, he started helping me coach our neighborhood Monte Vista High School freshman team..About a month into that coaching, he observed that he would have been a much better PLAYER had...