Retired Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who led U.S. and allied troops during the Persian Gulf War, told Life Magazine in 1992 that the U.S. military’s use of body counts during the Vietnam War was “a big lie” that he was forced to participate in. “Many times people would call me up on the radio after a battle and say, ‘What was your body count,’” Schwarzkopf said in the interview. “I’d say, ‘I don’t know what the body count was.’ They’d say, ‘Well, make one up. We have to report a body count.’”
My cousin was a CPO in Naval Intelligence serving in Stormin' Norman's staff during Desert Storm. She thinks the world of that man.