![]() The guy to whom we gave a battlefield commission was never in combat. That is, it was not the combat heroism of the soldier that got him to be an officer, rather it was he was sharper than most enlisted men and the Army was hurting for officers or thought it was. Battlefield commissions are more or less a reflection of a shortage of officers or a perceived shortage of officers. We did that with a guy in my platoon in Vietnam. When I was in the Army, and maybe still, there was another source of commission called “ battlefield commission.” In spite of its dramatic name, it just meant that if we had a sergeant we liked in a combat zone, we could promote him to second lieutenant just by filing some paperwork. ![]() The cadet said almost all non-West Point officers were “pieces of shit.” Non-West Point officers are mostly those from Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC-civilian college army officer training) and Officer Candidate School (OCS-school where current Army enlisted men go to became officers-often called “90-day wonders”). ![]() Military Academy Preparatory School because, among other things, he was turned off by a West Point cadet who was there as a leader on summer training. I recently got an email from a young man who quit the U.S. ![]()
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