And, of course, one should never forget the misconduct of Major Reno and Captain Benteen, who disobeyed orders to rejoin the Custer Battalion until it was far too late.
Would their presence have prevented the Last Stand? It's one of historys what ifs...but their actions on that field of battle merited a courts-martial and a firing squad!
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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