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===Doolittle Board=== [[File:JimmyDoolittleAutographed.jpg|thumb|right|Personalized photo of then-Major General Jimmy Doolittle]] Secretary of War [[Robert P. Patterson]] asked Doolittle on March 27, 1946, to head a commission on the relationships between officers and enlisted men in the Army called the "Doolittle Board" or the "GI Gripes Board". The Army implemented many of the board's recommendations in the postwar volunteer Army,<ref>{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Jerold E.|title=Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2001|page=154}}</ref> though many professional officers and noncommissioned officers thought that the Board "destroyed the discipline of the Army".<ref>{{cite book|last=Zellers|first=Larry|title=In Enemy Hands: A Prisoner in North Korea|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|date=1999|page=105}}</ref> Columnist [[Hanson Baldwin]] said that the Doolittle Board "caused severe damage to service effectiveness by recommendations intended to 'democratize' the Armyβa concept that is self-contradictory".<ref>{{cite book|last=Bogle|first=Lori L.|title=The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|date=2004|page=51}}</ref>
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