Brass Hats Cling to Their GI Servants
. Congressmen are grumbling that the message of inflation and frugality is not getting through to our admirals, generals and a few administration high-livers.</br></br>Legislators who drop by to chat with the brass hats at cocktail time, for instance, soon find that the military toasts being raised to belt-tightening are really 90-proof hogwash on the rocks.</br></br>The congressmen see GI servants mixing the drinks, polishing the silver, hustling the canapes, mowing the lawn outside and chauffeuring the Pentagon panjandrumsÛª wives home from their shopping.</br></br>With such pretty extravagance before their eyes, it is hard for the members to believe that the brass hats are being any more frugal with their multibil-liorv-dollar budget</br></br>Actually, the hundreds of recruits assigned to such menial jobs are costing the taxpayers at least $5.4 million a year, even though Pentagon regulations bar the use of GIs as domestic servants for officers.