Robert T. Marsh - Wikipedia

He was the installation commander, not the base commander, where I'd been assigned, when I'd been in...I actually saw him once, when I'd been with the base commander for a day, as I'd related a few times, there was a program there for new company-graders to do that, he was in a gigantic amptheathre in the main Hg bldg, we all said, famously, "Nothing, sir", all in succession, when the briefing I'd been allowed to sit in on was done...I was terrified when I had to shout it out, I did, I didn't know what else to do, truthfully, as the base commander sitting next to me had done it also, I just followed suit and did the same...another time, he'd passed me while I'd been driving on one of the base streets in his 3-star plate staff car, I saw it (thank God), whipped one off, he saw me and whipped one back...he also used to sit in the O Club with the deputy base commander, wearing his West Point sweatshirt, with the deputy base commander, who'd been Annapolis, wearing his, screaming and yelling at the TV during the annual Army-Navy football game...once, when he'd been promoted to O-10, I'd seen him as an O-9, he'd given the speech during the landing at Edwards, the day the Enterprise shuttle had been dropped off the 747, which we all watched on the tube in the O club, one of the ABC news TV commentators said, I remember, "he couldn't hear what the gentleman was saying, as the wind at Edwards was whipping so fiercely"...interestingly, I'd known he'd been a WW2 B-17 tail gunner, I believe, who'd gotten into West Point after flying a good many missions over Europe in WW2.....