Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
Father was a retired COL, Grandfather a retired two Star, told me both had advised him when he headed off for IOBC; "Be good, really good -- but don't be too good or your contemporaries will kill you on the way up."

It's a very competitive system...

Maybe too much so.
I recently read a biography of President Eisenhower that stated that during his pre-World War II military career he purposefully tried to appear less intelligent then he was to avoid making other officers feel threatened.
Things like this remind me how much I live being enlisted.

SFC W