Word: staffer
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
...that he would learn "the meaning of Prussianism." At cadet schools young Fedor showed by his unbreakable spirit that he already understood something of that meaning. By 1910 he had talked his way into the right to wear red stripes down his trouser legs-the badge of a general staffer. He had begun making speeches with the refrain: "Our profession should always be crowned by a heroic death for the Emperor and the Fatherland...