Half Audie Murphy, Half Jack Welch
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Anyone who has seen Patton knows the scene: The general's tanks are rumbling across the fields in pursuit of a retreating German army division, when suddenly they stop dead in their tracks. They're out of fuel, and the resupply trucks aren't anywhere close. So they sit, while the enemy escapes.
"We're not going to let that happen here," vows Lieutenant General William G. "Gus" Pagonis, head of the Army's Central Support Command in Saudi Arabia. As logistics commander, it is his job to make sure that the 350,000 U. S. soldiers fighting the ground war have what they need to defeat Saddam Hussein.