/gulag/ - gulag

My dad was a personnel clerk in Saigon and he told me the story about some lieutenant colonel who liked to command from a helicopter hovering at *very* low altitude and had a reputation for having this aura around him where everyone just knew he would always come out without a scratch only his aides absolutely did not. My dad's boss was complaining how he only had so many spare first lieutenants to dole out every month and this asshole was going through them at twice the rate of other battalion commanders.