* “‘Catch-22…says you’ve always got to do what your commanding officer tells you to.
“‘But Twenty-seventh Air Force says I can go home with forty missions.’
“‘But they don’t say you have to go home. And regulations do say you have to obey every order. That’s the catch. Even if the colonel were disobeying a Twenty-seventh Air Force order by making you fly more missions, you’d still have to fly them, or you’d be guilty of disobeying an order of his. And then the Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters would really jump on you.’”
“that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority.”
I’ve said it before – conservatives love the idea of troops. They don’t, however, have much use for actual living, breathing soldiers and sailors.