Word: gilliard
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...Spencer Gilliard, the program's sergeant major, remembers Koernke as a "so-and-so," and not just because Gilliard is black and Koernke had complained publicly about "niggers and Jews." A "fanatic with weapons," says Gilliard, Koernke also seemed chronically unable to observe rank. The culmination of this attitude, recalls another staff member, occurred "one day, when he came in and he had these general's stars on. He had promoted himself to general. All the other cadets were going crazy. You had to work real hard, and colonel is the highest rank you could make. It was like-golly...