The public regarded RSEA or Ret-Ser, as it is sometimes called, as a dumping ground for otherwise unemployable retired soldiers who had best be kept digging rocks out in the countryside away from the cities.
有時一天要跑四、五個地方，隨行人員都感覺體力不繼，得設法偷空休息，而他卻始終精神奕奕地聽簡報、作指示，並和大夥談話。通常只要介紹過一回，他就能記得對方的姓名，下回再見時，他都叫得出來，不免令屬下受寵若驚。