Word: disciplinarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like his close friend Ben Lear (whom he was slated to succeed when he was pulled away from his corps command last October), cocky, Wyoming-born, West Point-educated Lloyd Fredendall is a spit-&-polish disciplinarian, a top-notch administrator, a stern critic of incompetent commanders. At one maneuver critique last summer he cracked: "The opposing commanders got their lines so far extended it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other...
...commander of the Second Army (see col. 2), Lieut. General Ben Lear's duty has been to transform hundreds of thousands of young civilians into soldiers. Last week, flat-bellied and fit but pushing 64, Disciplinarian Lear announced that he would retire next month as a field officer. (His probable assignment: a desk job on onetime Chief of Staff Malin Craig's general promotion board...
...been commander of Fort Ethan Allen, where Field Artillery R. O. T. C. men spent their summer drill periods until last year, when that part of the Mil Sci program was suspended for the duration. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, he has the reputation of being a strict disciplinarian...
...General Olayton Barney Vogel of the Marines is commanding an amphibious force under Admiral William Frederick Halsey, also 60. Burly General Vogel carries the most notable bay window in the Marine Corps, yet he has been known to wear the breath out of younger, slim-waisted officers. A strict disciplinarian in the field, Barney Vogel is an inveterate party goer and party giver-a combination of inclinations usually not found in the Marine Corps. Experience gained in the jungles of Nicaragua and the mountains of Haiti should serve him well in the approaches north of Guadalcanal...
...stern disciplinarian, but he has the devotion of his men. Famous are his orders to his staff at the beginning of a conference: "I do not approve of coughing or smoking. There will be no smoking. For two minutes you may cough. Thereafter coughing will cease." Nor does he drink...