Reply #43: In a way he does [View All]

If you think of a military base as a small town or city, depending on its size, there are the same human needs to be organized: housing, medical care, education, food, roads, motor vehicles, physical plant, judiciary, police, fire, sanitation, etc. You have the same social issues: domestic violence, civil rights, abortion, crime, whatever.

When he was SACEUR, this reached into the hundreds of thousands of people to provide services for, so the size of a state. I doubt there is anything he doesn't already know about governing and the political wheeling and dealing that comes with the territory. He would have been before Congressional committees trying to get more schools, better housing, improved health care, supplies, all those things that go into running a municipality or state, many, many times.

So I don't agree he has no record, just not a civilian one. I have read that he was known as the "Fix-It Man" and assigned to troubled bases where morale was low and required to "fix" them, and he was considered the best at reorganizing those military bases.

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