Talk:John Bahnsen

Point of View problems
Bahnsen deserves a more polished encyclopedia article. This version has hyperbole like "He had the uncanny ability to be where the enemy least expected him to be, finding and killing them, then looking for more." It needs a lot of work. The article on George_Patton_IV is a better example. jk (talk) 23:08, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

The article is a one-sided puff piece better suited to a press release or publisher's blurb on a book jacket. "Legend in his own time"?? How about legend in his own mind.

The article breifly mentions his mistress - but omits them living together in a trailer air-lifted to a firebase. Or her shopping trip to Saigon the used a helicopter that would otherwise have been available when it was needed for ammunition resupply. As 1st Squadron commander, he briefly transformed the squadron from a powerful Regimental Cavalry squadron into a much less effective copy of a Divisional Cavalry Squadron by standing down the howitzer battery and breaking up the tank company to parcel out its platoons to the ACAV troops.

The article mentions that not everyone was a supporter of Doc Bahnsen, but offers no opposing views and claims that even the people who were not supporters all spoke highly of his abilities. Those stories don't include the Blackhorse trooper who bled to death while waiting for a medevac that never came because the only communication between the battlefield and the basecamp was via Bahnsen's C&C helicopter and he was too busy trying to direct individual vehicles in the battle to bother calling in the medevac. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.238.8.12 (talk) 13:48, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

This article also fails to mention why BG Bahnsen failed to make Major General. While at Fort Hood he dropped his pants and mooned the assembled officers and wives of the Second Squadron, 1st United States Cavalry, Second Armored Division while serving as its assistant division commander. After his return to Fort Hood from Korea, he was denied clearance for take off from Hood Army Air Field because the ceiling and visibility was below minimums. He hovered his UH-1 to the tower, hovered up to the level of the observation deck, and gave "the finger" to the non-commissioned officer flight controller. From there he departed the airfield without clearance. BG Bahnsen was allowed to retire shortly thereafter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loden1111 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
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