He has filed to resign his commission. Now, I just try to survive and keep my soldiers from feeling as bad as I do. But weapons and communications systems are outmoded and funds for new ones short. Worse still is the legacy of Soviet doctrine and training. Vohralik has West Point degrees in computer sciences and electrical engineering as well as U.S. Army leadership training.
Nobody is really happy here.
Current NATO members have complaints, too. Lack of money, motivation or morale also trouble the Poles and Hungarians, as all three nations try to refit to NATO standards by 1999, the year of planned admission into the alliance. That doesn't help, when the Clifton administration faces a hard sell in the U.S. Senate, which must ratify the expansion plan along with the legislatures of other NATO members. Various polls say more than 50 percent of Czechs support NATO membership, but only half of those consider it a priority. In Poland, polls have found the support for membership in NATO significantly stronger.