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Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
Do they really have a choice? Sure, they can retire, but I would think that when you get that far along, the brass ring is pretty tough to give up. I know it is in my world.
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GEN Schoomaker was already retired and came back onto AD to work for him.
LTG Boykin could have retired easily from his previous job, had he not wanted to work for him.
Do not assume that they could not have been very successful upon retirement from the military.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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