October 15, 2003

THE ARMY IS LEARNING AN IMPORTANT LESSON FROM THE MARINES: Every soldier will be a soldier first, and a truck driver, or tech, or whatever, second.

This seems like a good thing to me, and to Phil Carter, though Carter notes:

The question will be whether Gen. Schoomaker gets the support he needs from the SecDef to make this happen, and whether he can get the authorization/appropriations authority from Congress to do it.

He should, on both counts, if Congress and the SecDef are serious about national defense. And they ought to be.