In 1996 Colonel Hackworth wrote an article about then Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jay Bordeaux charging the Admiral with wearing a medal on his uniform that he did not rate. The fallout from the article left a small tribe of senior naval officers with a strong aversion to Hackworth and his perspectives. Some army leadership also disliked Hackworth and disparaged him when I brought up his name. While they wouldn't quite call him a turncoat some army soldiers viewed the end of Hackworth's career as a slap in the face of the US Army the US military and America.