Good read. Stormin’ Norman was a hell of a general. Leaders of his caliber are hard to come by.
We have lost a giant in the ranks of great military leaders throughout history. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition to drive Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait in 1991, died on Thursday, December 27, in Tampa, Fla., of complications from pneumonia, according to press reports. This comes as a shock and surprise because this larger than life man seemed to be invincible, never willing to give in to defeat of anything in war, nor in life. He was a soldier’s general who “embodied the warrior spirit,”[i]
General Schwarzkopf was commissioned a Second Lieutenant after graduating in 1956 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received advanced infantry and airborne training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He attended the University of Southern California, receiving a Master of Science in mechanical engineering in 1964. In 1966 he volunteered for Vietnam and served two tours, first as a U.S…
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