I was still quite naive after flunking out of college, and actually believed the Army recruiter when he said I was a prime candidate for Officers School.  Ya, right....To make a long story short, I ended up in the Army Security Agency and was posted to Europe.  Either the Army's screening tests were correct or I was just dumb lucky, but the ASA was my kind of military duty.  No hardships, no drills, and on the one occasion that I had a rifle in my hands it got rusted up. We were not required to be regulation soldiers.  We usually always dressed in civilian clothes (except when some visiting brass stumbled across our little base). My boss actually was a civilian, from the NSA.  I was based Herzo, an old Luftwaffe airfield, and it  was fairly close to the Czech border and if the RED HORDES came streaming our way, our standing orders were to drop thermite grenades into our equipment, jump in our vehicles and beat a fast retreat to Paris. Probably not heroic, but certainly realistic.  A Warrior I was not. I imagine any Eastern Bloc Pioneer or Boy Scout troop could easily have defeated our battalion. I think we were the precursors to the degeneration of the American military forces so evident in the following years. culminating in the Viet war.  Thank God, when Reagan was elected and actually thought that our way of life meant something, and did something about it, those attitudes changed.  No longer were "politically correct" types in charge of the military.  The end result being a decisive victory in Iraq.  How terribly dishonorable that President Clinton allowed our defensive military to deteriorate in quality and quantity.  I hope the guy rots in the hell he deserves.  Now that we have an honorable man in the Presidency, conditions will improve.