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Herbert was assigned to Viet Nam in September 1968, first in a staff position, then as a battalion commander in the field. The following July he was back in the U.S., relieved of his combat command after just 58 days, his exemplary 19-year service record marred by an efficiency report so adverse that his career was ruined. He immediately began appealing the Army's action against him, and 18 months later made a serious public charge; the reason for his disgrace, he said, was that he had accused two superior officers of covering up war crimes...
...warrant courts-martial. The dispute spilled into the open. A five-page summary of L'Affaire Herbert was released by Pentagon officials. The report notes that Herbert did not bring up his war-crime allegations until a year and a half after he had been relieved of his command, and only after his third review to reverse the bad efficiency rating had been turned down. Nowhere in the written record of hearings held in Viet Nam after losing his command nor in the appeals that followed, the Army said, did Herbert raise the issue of war crimes. Herbert...
Clearly the Worst. With the investigation over, officers who had served with him made their first critical statements since the case began. Major General Barnes said that he had given Herbert a command position despite advice against the assignment. Said Barnes; "Fifty-eight days later, I had had Herbert up to here. I have commanded 20 battalion commanders in my time, and Herbert was clearly the worst. He also is the only one I ever relieved...
There were trial blackouts in the East Pakistan capital of Dacca too, but they are taken much more seriously there; after all, civil war between Bengali rebels and the Pakistani army is already a bloody reality. The Pakistan military command urged East Pakistanis to begin digging trenches in the compounds of all buildings "to face any eventuality...
...given to the Bar-Lev Line of Israeli fortifications along the Suez Canal, will leave the army at the end of the year in line with an Israeli tradition of generals retiring before they are 50. Bar-Lev's successor: his oldest friend and current second-in-command as chief of operations, Major General David ("Dado") Elazar...