Colin Powell is one of our greatest leaders

[Goatnapper'96]

Yes a Corp is bigger than a div. He came out of the White House and went there. He had it less than a yr then went back to the Pentagon. How do I say this nicely, there was a lot of people who thought that there were more deserving 2/3 stars out there. The fact that he hadn't had a division came up alot also. From the O-Club discussions I heard, most people, thought he was the ultimate political general. not quite a Cortney Massengale ( a character from the novel Once an Eagle ), but... Admittedly this is from LT/Capt level bs sessions.

When I was in the 101st, the XVIII ABC was the 101st, 82nd, and the 24th ID ( I don't know how they got the tanks to fall out of airplanes without breaking )

I went and read his wiki bio, I remember many of similar grumblings from Officers when his name came up. However, I was active duty in the late 90's so he had become a politician by then. I had always heard he never had a division command and focussed upon that and never realized that he commanded V Corps despite never commanding a Division. I did read his brigade command OERs sucked ass and my guess is that getting into the political positions moved him forward and overcame his shitty Brigade Command OERs. It also sounds like he commanded V Corps for no more than a year at most.

I still like Powell, but his style grates on me a bit. I like hardcore officer types who are blunt and leave little question where they stand. I still chuckle that he supported Obama and because he didn't want his old friend McCain to have his feelings hurt he blamed Sarah Palin because she was unpopular. There was enough about Obama to just come out and say that the dude is enormously capable and somebody I think would be a good President.

[happyone]

I went and read his wiki bio, I remember many of similar grumblings from Officers when his name came up. However, I was active duty in the late 90's so he had become a politician by then. I had always heard he never had a division command and focussed upon that and never realized that he commanded V Corps despite never commanding a Division. I did read his brigade command OERs sucked ass and my guess is that getting into the political positions moved him forward and overcame his shitty Brigade Command OERs. It also sounds like he commanded V Corps for no more than a year at most.

I still like Powell, but his style grates on me a bit. I like hardcore officer types who are blunt and leave little question where they stand. I still chuckle that he supported Obama and because he didn't want his old friend McCain to have his feelings hurt he blamed Sarah Palin because she was unpopular. There was enough about Obama to just come out and say that the dude is enormously capable and somebody I think would be a good President.

I hadn't heard or don't remember about his BDE OERs being less than stellar, but that would explain why he never got a division. I don't think he had V Corp long enough to prove what kind of upper level commander he would be.

I like him also. I think he was a very effective JCS Chariman. I agree with you that he would make a good president.