Engineer Memoirs _____________________________________________________________________
General Kem (center) presented a commemorative painting from the Engineer School
to General Bruce C. Clarke (Retired), a prominent Engineer officer, on 10 March 1987.
On the right is Lieutenant General Frederick J. Clarke (Retired), who served as Chief of
Engineers from 1969-1973.
Q:
That answers the question very well. Do you see the time when that is going to be solved,
when the rest of the combined arms team is going to realize that unless they help in this area,
that the things they need aren't going to be there?
A:
Well, something's got to give. We can't continue building a bureaucracy of paper within the
combat developments realm that requires more effort to maintain than the current staff. Do I
see any great number of folks out there? No. I see us moving to Fort Leonard Wood, getting
established, starting a staff up there, getting stability, and then two by two, four by four,
working out the appropriate level of staffing and at the same time trying to cut down on lost
effort that's in our process now. Our process meaning the TRADOC process whereby we
send things to CAC, it's sent back and redone and sent back to CAC who approves it and
sends it to TRADOC where it's sent back to be redone, and part of what CAC did has to be
redone and part of what we did has to be redone and then it goes back up. TRADOC is
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