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Teddy Roosevelt: “The scope of retiring boards should be extended so that they could consider general unfitness to command for any cause…”

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The scope of retiring boards should be extended so that they could consider general unfitness to command for any cause, in order to secure a far more rigid enforcement than at present in the elimination of officers for mental, physical or temperamental disabilities.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt calls for an expansion of retiring boards' scope to ensure the removal of unfit officers for various disabilities.

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