The typical staff officer is a man past middle life, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, noncommittal, with eyes like a codfish, polite in contact, but at the same time unresponsive, cool, calm and as damnably composed as a concrete post or plaster of Paris cast; a human petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm or the friendly germ; minus bowels, passions or a sense of humor.
Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to hell.
Gen George S. Patton, Jr.
6 comments:
I do believe that I've met a few of these "staff officers" in my short career.
Cap'n,
I am betting you were one of those staff officers that the General was referring to.
Thanks for the lunchtime pick-me-up. Now I'm heading back off to my staff officer course.
Unknown at 12:18,
I hear you. I served on the CINCPACFLT, CNSG, Joint Staff and OSD Staffs. The General's words are hurtful, if not partially true.
I don't believe that those words pertain to you.
Ha! They're still out there!
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