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Yea I have 2 followers!  Thanks Stacy and Marjorie!!  

This 4 month course is to teach me military stuff, like tactics, war theory, military history, and also the art of writing and speaking.  I have the latter down as I am a lawyer, but the other is like a foreign language to me.  After reading the first 70 pages of homework Thursday night, then listening to the armor and infantry officers talk in class, I was like:  what?  

I am an over achiever and when my daughter finishes the school year, she is going to join me in VA.  So I want to start on my papers and projects now.  One of the papers is to find a reading in my foundations course and disagree with it.  The first articles I have read, I actually agree with it.  How actually it is civilians (what we call the non-military) actually controls the military.  Our Chief of Staff, the President, is a civilian.  Was President Eisenhower in the 50's our last President with military experience (and what great experience he had as the Supreme Commander in WWII)?  Who else - Washington?  

required note:  MAJ Tara McCallum, Student, Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, VA.  "The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government."