I'm not sure what the line about Westmoreland and the Citadel and minority populations means. William Westmoreland, the US Army general who lead MACV during the

I'm not sure what the line about Westmoreland and the Citadel and minority populations means. William Westmoreland, the US Army general who lead MACV during the critical years of the Vietnam War, spent his first year of college at the Citadel, but then transferred to USMA (transfers into military academies was quite common at the time), where he ended up as First Captain (basically head of Cadets, not top in class rank but the commander of the Brigade of Cadets). One of his classmates in the class of 1936, Benjamin O. Davis Jr, was the first African-American to attend West Point in nearly 50 years, and would go on to lead the Tuskegee Airmen into battle. Davis suffered from a set of social isolation during his entire four years at USMA, never had a roommate, no one talked to him during meals, no one talked to him outside of class, he was not invited to dances or social events, etc. trying to drive him out of the Academy and return it to the all-White way it had been. Apparently Westmoreland wasn't one of the ring-leaders of this ostracism, but as First Captain it sure as hell was his job to stop it, and he failed to do so. This started a pattern for Westmoreland, of being wrong about things but getting promoted anyway, that continued for the rest of his life. _Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam_ by US Army in Vietnam veteran Lewis Sorely, is appropriately scathing of the man and his failures.