re: #1 William Barnett-Lewis

I did infantry school for the US Army at Harmony Church Ft Benning Ga back in the mid 80’s. I was a scrawny boy, it was a hard effort for me to make it to the end.

But I still am glad to have earned my crossed rifles and my fourragere in light blue. They were hard earned and I remain proud of my success.

My sister went to officer’s school and graduated first in her class. Due to a bureaucratic disaster she lost her commission. So instead she went on to become a Command Sergeant Major… !

Had she wished to, I have no doubt, that she would have been a better Infantry NCO than I was. I was good a my job. Very good even. I just know she was driven in a way I was not and would have been that much better. It is a loss for the US Army that she was not allowed to be what she could have been.

It is time to stop that stupidity.

What was the ‘bureaucratic disaster’? I ask because I collect stories of bureaucratic stupidity.