"I came in in 1990. It didn't seem like we were going to have another big, long, prolonged war," he says. "We all thought we'd do one mission." But the first Gulf War was over in 72 hours and that's what war is now, Hackworth says. The new non-commission officer became more professional on purpose as a plan to make them professional,. We called the sardins in Vietnam, Shaken Bake. And then in time, they sunset.