Choke…coffee going down my trachea instead of the esophagus. “What did you say, Commander?” The student, a Navy lieutenant commander, had just informed me that the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) was sending passed-over lieutenants to attend the Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. “Not again,” I thought. “And it’s worse than before.”

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