GovExec.com Today -- December 4, 2007
By George C. Wilson, CongressDaily
The stage is set for our armed services to relive the worst days of the 1970s when discipline broke down, crime ran rampant, race relations soured, many of the best and brightest in the junior officer corps left the military in disgust, planes couldn't fly and ships couldn't sail for want of spare parts and technical specialists.
Generals, admirals and Defense secretaries favored buying new over fixing up the old, generating a readiness crisis. It doesn't take a crystal ball to make those predictions, just time in grade.
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