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Obviously it’s this:In fact, the more prestigious it is the better it works. I went through a phase as a early university student where I was very much interested in military intelligence and specifically psychological operations. It’s not all ‘cloak and dagger’, neither is it all lies. A lot of good can be done by providing people and their communities with information that they might otherwise be deprived of. Every effective war makes use of some sort of slavery - soldiers fight in faith. If that faith can be brought into question then an army can turn to anarchy quickly. Hopefully, the information used to do that will be truthful - the most effective manoeuvres often are.Below, for example, is an example of a poorly co-ordinated misinformation campaign. There has been some groundwork done, but only in the form of dogma. A leader’s voice only carries weight so long as their power seems to be proven in some sense. A circular argument is often used: ‘if I were not great, then why would I be the leader?’. Similarly, all opposition to such individuals is classified as treason or fraud. Again, this works so long as they hold the power of the pen which makes executive orders and announcements of the state.However, once people stop paying attention then all effectiveness is lost. If the cameras cut away during the complaint then we have the same situation as a classroom where an impotent teacher is yelling at a class that is no longer in session.Words like the ones below - when written with a powerful pen - can mesmerise masses and manage them accordingly. However, once the stationary’s letterhead has been degraded by misuse, the message no longer matters.Integrity is everything. Wars are won or lost according to what actually happens. Strategic communication merely attempts self-fulfilling prophecy. In this case, it did not work - because it was done so desperately by an agent lacking integrity to begin with.Eh, Dima Vorobiev? The old soviets would be ashamed of such amateurism.

I flew most of them back in my day, along with countless three-star and two-star generals. I’ve had some spectacular days with four-star Air Force generals. I’ve had some funny days with them. If you really want to know, here are a few answers, out of way too many to recount. As usual, I’ve saved the best one for a sweet dessert.A NOTE: Generals who are pilots are allowed to fly if they are with an instructor. In my little executive jet that I flew at Andrews, most of them got a short check-out program with us. Some of these stories will make more sense when you know I was an instructor who flew the generals.Chief of Staff General David C. JonesHe was the only four-star I flew with who wasn’t super nice all the time. He was more like what you might imagine if you were casting an Air Force four-star in a movie—he was more like a caricature of one, except that he was quite real.The first time I was scheduled to fly with him, I was alerted to his quirks, which was that he never called for checklists, didn’t talk much during the flight and, in fact, while he was strapping into the cockpit he would say exactly two words to me: “It’s waived.”And I was supposed to know what he meant by that, which is why I was briefed.The U.S. air space has a speed limit of 250 knots when flying below 10,000 feet. On takeoff, jets accelerate to 250 and maintain that speed in the climb, then level out at 10,000 feet and accelerate to a normal climb speed of more like 300–350.But there is a rule in the regulations that says the Chief of Staff of the Air Force can waive that rule for any flight, if he deems it necessary to accomplish the mission.So, while he was buckling in, he would be sure to turn to me and say, “It’s waived.” I was expected to know what he meant by that.And I did. On initial contact with departure control I would add a few key words to the end of the normal call, “Departure, this is Pacer 01, passing two thousand, climbing six thousand, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force has waived the 250-knot speed restriction for this flight, so we’ll be climbing at 350 knots.”Chief of Staff General Lew Allen, Jr.General Allen and his wife were two of the nicest people I have known. He was super smart, mild-mannered, kind, and considerate. His wife would always come along and in the summer she brought a thermos of lemonade or ice tea and a plate of home-baked cookies. In the winter, she brought hot chocolate and a plate of fudge.I never spent much time with Mrs. Allen because I was the instructor and stayed in the cockpit. My copilot sat in back for takeoff and landing. They all said she was a delight to chat with. They also got more of the cookies than I got.Most generals would make the takeoff and climb to cruise altitude, then go sit in back and send my copilot back up. And then they’d come back up during descent to take the landing. But General Allen loved to fly and usually stayed in the cockpit with me the whole time. I’ve flown coast-to-coast, shoulder to shoulder with him several times and he also was a delight to chat with.But one time, after we leveled off, he wasn’t chatty and seemed a little uneasy. He turned to me, gazing across the glint of his four shiny stars and with the utmost sincerity and kindness, said to me, a lowly captain, “I have some work to do. Would you mind if I went in the back and worked until it was time to descend, then come back up for the landing?”Seriously, a four-star general, the Chief of Staff of the entire United States Air Force sincerely asked me that. Of course I said yes. He unstrapped, climbed out of his seat and then turned back and said, “Now, if you need me during the flight, just call on the intercom and I’ll come right back up.”Did I mention he was Chief of Staff? He really said that. Nice, nice man!General Daniel “Chappie” JamesRemember the two scenes in the movie Patton, when he got promoted and his aide had the new rank in his briefcase and helped the general pin on the extra star, on the spot?I saw that happen for real once.Lieutenant General Chappie James was the highest-ranking African American in the Air Force and was in line to become a four-star general. I was flying him from Andrews AFB to the headquarters of Strategic Air Command at Offutt AFB in Nebraska and was told that his papers were in the White House and that President Carter was expected to sign them while we were in the air.On departure, I put the three-star plaque in the side window, as per protocol. Of course we carried four such plaques in all of our planes, one for each level of stars, with one side blue for Air Force and Navy, and the other side red for Army and Marines. So, I had the blue four-star plaque in the cockpit.We kept in touch with the White House through the Andrews command post and somewhere over Indiana, we got the call that President Carter had just made history.I reported that news to Chappie James and then I watched his aide help him pin on his four-stars. Then I swapped plaques in the window. It was the only time I got to watch a four-star general become one and the only time I changed stars during a flight.A lot of people greeted us upon arrival.General Bryce Poe IIYou might think that all four-star generals are fawned over all the time, everywhere they go—they couldn’t get a cup of coffee for themselves if they wanted to. And you’d be right most of the time, but not all the time. Not at Andrews AFB, anyway, which is a base where four stars might not even buy you a ride off the ramp on a punishing hot day.General Poe was traveling alone this day, without his aide. It was one of those horrible “dog days” of August in D.C. when your sweat won’t evaporate and you can feel the air cling to you. That type of air is especially nasty on a massive concrete ramp like Andrews has.As we rolled out on landing I contacted ground control and was told there was a ramp freeze in effect. A ramp freeze is invoked at Andrews when Air Force One, Air Force Two, or some equal foreign dignitary was arriving or departing. So, we were directed to a remote parking spot, about a mile from “Spot One,” where you see Air Force One parked on the news. Normally a four-star general would deplane on the very famous Spot One.The air was so hot and thick and heavy that it just grabbed ahold of us when we opened the door. We stepped onto the ramp and looked around and saw that, indeed, no vehicles were moving anywhere on the ramp. The general had two heavy bags. He also had a pressing appointment with the U.S. Senate. He couldn’t wait. We’d been told over the radio that his staff car was sitting just outside the flight line fence at Spot One if we could just get there—but it could not enter the ramp, even to pick up four stars.So, he asked if I’d mind taking one bag and walking with him. A mile across a ramp in August is quite a trek with a heavy bag, so he yanked off his tie and his uniform jacket, stuffed them in a bag and we started schlepping.He was pretty cool about it, considering how hot and degrading it was. He laughed and said, “Only at Andrews!” He got it. He understood. But that didn’t make us sweat any less.The problem that day was that three big Andrews jets were parked in front of the terminal all at the same time—the only time I’ve seen three lined up together. Air Force One for Gerald Ford on Spot One. Air Force Two for Nelson Rockefeller on Spot Two. And another jet that was about to take Secretary of State Henry Kissinger overseas.As a mere four-star, General Poe had absolutely no chance of getting a ride in from the ramp!We walked past Kissinger’s jet, then under the wings of AF 2, then AF1, then to the waiting staff car. We dumped his bags in the trunk and he vanished in a flash.Army General Frederick C. Weyand and Navy Admiral James L. Holloway IIIIt wasn’t just Air Force four-stars who could experience an it could only happen at Andrews Air Force Base story.A NOTE: Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire used to bestow a monthly Golden Fleece Award on some government agency that he felt embodied government waste of taxpayer money. At the end of each year, he dubbed one agency as the Fleece of the Year.In the fall of 1974, General Weyland was the brand new Army Chief of Staff and Admiral Holloway was the brand new Chief of Naval Operations, and it was time for the first Army-Navy football game since the both of them had advanced to be the chiefs of their services.The game was to be played at West Point and my wing flew the two shiny new chiefs to Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. They took their wives along. That day, they were treated like royalty at the Army-Navy game, and then flown back to Andrews—a very nice day in the life of two four-star officers.But, at the end of the following year, 1975, the 89th Military Airlift was given Proxmire’s Fleece of the Year and we were told that the trip to the Army-Navy game by the chiefs and their wives was what enraged Proxmire to the point of giving us the overall annual prize.I’ve always wondered this: In what other country would the chiefs of the Army and Navy be berated for wasting government funds by attending the annual football game between their services? If their attendance was a waste of government money, then the game shouldn’t be held at all.So, what did we in the 89th do? We held a Dining Out, which is a formal celebration dinner where everyone wears their fancy mess dress uniforms and we all got to see the award in person. It was great fun. The award was hung proudly in the wing commander’s office.FYI: The actual citation on Senator Proxmire’s letterhead. (Scroll to the bottom.)Chief of Staff General Larry D. WelchHere’s one from the it’s a small world department. I flew several times with Major General Larry Welch. I don’t recall any specific story from his two-star days, but I recall that he was fun to fly with—very open and outgoing.Like a lot of retired Air Force general officers, Larry Welch remained in the D.C. area after retirement. And I can understand why, because after hanging out at Andrews for years one tends to have a lifelong affliction of feeling drawn to living near this power center—we feel comfortable in the vibration of that energy.Nearly four decades later, one of my best friends, Lowell Smith, told me he’d just met a former Air Force Chief of Staff, who was a friend of one of his friends. The three of them were having long lunches together regularly. Of course I asked the general’s name and Lowell told me it was Larry Welch. I remembered him instantly, even though he’d had only two-stars back then. Lowell invited me to join his triad for lunch one day.And so—to use a common phrase among pilots—there I was: again sitting shoulder to shoulder with another Air Force Chief of Staff.As Lowell got to know General Welch, he became surprised at the number of aircraft the general had flown and so he asked how that was possible. General Welch said that as Chief of Staff he could fly any plane he wanted.“Did you fly the SR-71?,” Lowell asked.“Of course, I flew every aircraft the Air Force had.”“Why did you fly all of them?”General Welch laughed and said, “Because I could!”Lieutenant General Kenneth L. TallmanI’m going to cheat on the last story, which is about a general who retired with three stars instead of four. But it’s an exceptional story that contributed to my love of the Air Force, so I hope you’ll accept a story that’s one star short.I had the title in my squadron of Chief of Standardization and Evaluation, which in civilian terms means chief pilot for my particular aircraft at Andrews. Most pilots in the squadron just flew, but I had this additional duty on the side, which meant I had an office and two staff members. One of those was a two-stripe airman and she was a joy to work with—always professional and excellent.But the day came when she got orders for her next assignment and she was to be stationed in Japan. She had some family issue with her parents in North Dakota, and for the next few years, she needed to at least be in the same country. She had asked to be stationed at Minot Air Force Base for a few years. But her orders came down for Japan. She came to me in tears and said she was going to separate from the Air Force because she could not live that far from her parents right now. She was crying because she really wanted to make a career of the Air Force. And I knew that the Air Force should try to retain her, so I told my squadron commander and he made some calls, but with no luck.A couple of days later, I was scheduled to fly Lieutenant General Kenneth Tallman, who was at the Pentagon in the position of Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. I had flown him several times—and he was, like most of them, one of our flying generals so we sat shoulder-to-shoulder and chatted for hours. He was a superbly kind and friendly man.Suddenly, I got one of the better ideas I’ve had in my life!Air Force personnel are allowed to travel on Air Force jets when there are empty seats on a space available basis. So, I put my airman on the manifest, she boarded quietly and sat in the back with my copilot, and General Tallman and I flew.At cruise altitude, I told him the story and asked if he’d go back and talk to her. He unstrapped, went back to the passenger cabin and sent my copilot up to sit in the left seat while he was gone.I will always recall the very cool image of a three-star general talking openly and sincerely with a lowly two-striper in the back of my jet. After about a half-hour, he came back up and finished the flight with me, telling me he thought he could fix this.He did. She got orders to Minot and the Air Force gained a valuable and loyal member for a career.Lieutenant General Tallman soon would become the eighth U.S. Air Force Academy Superintendent and I continued to fly him when he was in that position. For decades afterward I always recalled his smile and warm and friendly face and that story from the cabin of my jet. And then, just last summer, I got to see a life-size portrait of him in the Arnold Hall at the Air Force Academy in a gallery of former Superintendents.Personal Tip: If you have the opportunity, be sure to get your portrait painted when you’re young and trim—it’s so much more flattering than the harsh truth of a high-res iPhone camera at close range when you’ve had several more decades of good eating and something weird has happened to your hair.But can’t you visualize that man’s smile radiating kindly on a two-stripe airman, and then helping her make a career of the Air Force?So, there are a few stories of a day in the lives of some active duty four-star generals—and one three-star—I enjoyed them all.Well, almost all. I’ve skipped over the one exception with an Air Force four-star, but I wrote a separate answer about my very special day with an Army four-star general! (Ron Wagner's answer to What is something you saw in the Air Force that you were definitely not supposed to see?)My very best day with generals, however, was with a bunch of retired ones.My 19-Star FlightMy most memorable flight with generals was when I carried 19 stars to go see the brand new space shuttle—and at that point in history no shuttle had been launched. On this day, Columbia was being transported from Edwards AFB in California to Cape Kennedy—riding on top of the NASA 747 transport, flown by legendary test pilot Fitzhugh Fulton—practically no one had seen a space shuttle in person.I had the honor of flying 19 stars worth of retired generals from Andrews to Kelly AFB in San Antonio to watch the 747 land with the shuttle on its back, talk to Fitz Fulton as the 747 refueled, then watch the very magical takeoff of that whole massive assembly. And who were these 19 stars? Well, they were legends in the minds of most aviators:General Nathan Farragut Twining: third USAF Chief of StaffGeneral Curtis LeMay: fifth USAF Chief of StaffGeneral John D. Ryan: seventh USAF Chief of StaffGeneral George S. Brown: eighth USAF Chief of StaffLieutenant General Ira C. Eaker: Never Chief of Staff, just a mere freaking legend. Commander of the Eighth Air Force during WW2. If you haven’t heard of him, then you might want read about him in Wikipedia, then watch the most famous pilot movie of all time: Twelve O'Clock High - Wikipedia.You asked about the day in the life of a four-star—well, that’s one day in the life of 19 stars worth of generals.This day was a spectacular one and I kept trying to imagine the emotions these men were experiencing. Eaker was seven years old and Twining was six years old when the Wright brothers first flew—and they suddenly became kids who loved airplanes. Both earned their wings in fabric-covered, wooden biplanes and flew combat in WW1. And now they were walking around the space shuttle. It was a hell of a day for those five generals, that’s for sure.All those stars, all that power, and they acted like a bunch of awe-struck boys the whole day because, underneath those four-star uniforms, in their hearts, that’s who they always were—still kids who loved airplanes.It was a joy to watch.

There is just so much that is utterly, outright wrong with this that it’s hard to process.Most glaringly, no department of the United States would be caught dead using paper with the Ensign as a background - period.Every letterhead will state which department of the DOD it represents; this one doesn’tPoint 2 is in absolute contravention of the truth. Only the requesting individual is authorized to request leave for themselves.Way too many grammatical errors in this for it to be authenticPoint 5 is just false. No soldier/sailor/airman will be given a continuous 90 days of leave, even if it’s hardship leave. If the individual requires more leave than 30 days due to hardship, than their command may transfer them to a holding unit in order to fill the vacancy that the leave taker left. Also, they may begin the process of separating said individual due to hardship.Lastly, and possibly most telling, there is no such place as “93rd Ave. Abraham dave/drive street, Washington DC, WA USA”. There is no 93rd ave. dave (or drive) street, there is no 93rd Ave drive, and there is no 93rd Ave in Washington DC. Also, Washington DC is not even remotely close to WA (Washington state - approximately 3,000km away)As a side note, when I Googled that address, the recurring theme with all the hits was the word “Scam”. Take note.