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As management systems deputy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, A. Ernest Fitzgerald has undeniably paid a price for his tenacious truth-telling, at one time having to relinquish his post for revealing cost excesses that directly affected taxpayers. Yet Fitzgerald, by his own account, was only doing his job the job of a vigorously patriotic industrial engineer called upon to serve his country by exposing waste, mismanagement, and fraud within the rigid halls of the Pentagon. Indeed, the man who was once branded the most hated man in the Air Force may be by some accounts, one of the great industrial engineers of our time. (Description from Source) |