"I've long told every Officer I meet, "When you get to be Chief of Staff, nuke the Hoffman Building."
It's my fault because none of them got to that job full time. Bruce Palmer did get to be Vice Chief and even Acting Chief. He told me outside Phu Bai in 1968 as he was leaving country rebuilding that monster was his number one priority -- but he didn't get that done, they're too entrenched. I bumped into him at the Armor conference at Knox in '78, after he'd retired. He was not a cusser but when we talked about the personnel system and Congress' impact on it, he did show me he knew how to cuss when it was necessary.
"A helluva a way to run an organization within a country which has become what it is through the workings of good laws, free enterprise, and free labor markets."
Too true -- puts a whole new meaning on the phrase "We've lost our way..."

I'll take responsibility for my screwups -- now if we could just get Congress to do that...