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Originally Posted by PRB
Slight correction....Wooldridge left the position of SMA and took MACV and was caught getting kickbacks...what is not said aloud is that he assigned all of the senior NCO's to RVN (club managers etc) as the SMA setting up his kickback scheme from the club system in country.
For you young guys we were in RVN a long time and there was an Officer/NCO club system like stateside on the larger US Divisional bases...lots of money spent, Fillipino bands, dancers, and drink til you passed out kind of deal.
He got a kickback from every band, club entertainment deal in country and made 100's of thousands of dollars while grunts were getting killed.
I met him at the SM Acad in the 80's and could not be civil with him or shake his hand...still can't.
He did some valourous stuff earlier but disgraced himself and his position.
McK did the same.
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PRB,
IIRC there was a book written about the scam –
Khaki Mafia by Robin Moore (in his pre Jack Idema days). It involved mostly Army NCO’s, (Club Custodians), and a few GO’s.
SnT