FORECAST
Army intelligence wasn't an oxymoron back
when federalized national guardsmen and
draftees seeded an expanding US Army
in the still innocent days of early 1941.
It was a time of a precarious peace in the
blind hope that Germany was only bluffing.
We became sudden soldiers without the
training and practice of later days
and it came to light on a Saturday
morning at Inspection by a sharp major
an officer who had some years before
earned a college degree and a commission.
If Hitler had known of our unpreparedness
it would have been a much shorter war.
After stopping in front of a soldier the
major inspects his rifle looks him over
and asks who is Commander in Chief of
our Armed Forces? The reply, "Uncle Sam?"