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| Col. Tyrell |
A desperate and seemingly dispirited
Barbara Byrd-Bennett, faced with a bubbling community revolt, is now relying on a highly-paid retired Marine colonel with a staff of 40 to organize her
covert-ops Chicago's mass school-closing fiasco. His name is
Tom Tyrell and his preparation for this coming assault on the city's black and Latino communities is his "prisoner-exchange" work in Kosovo. Metaphors abound.
No they didn't, you say? Yes they did.
“I’m not saying it looks similar to now, but there was great distrust to the process on both sides but there was a lot of chaos and stress,” Tom Tyrrell told the Chicago Sun-Times. What is similar, he continued: “It requires you to plow through the noise and get the planning done and get it done in detail and then be flexible enough to adapt as the plan unfolds.”
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| Tyrrell moves from the military to Wall St.. Here he rings the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York City on May 27, 2005 (File:US Navy 050527-N-2114S-002 ) |
Actually, Col. Tyrell's work went far beyond what the S-T calls "prisoner-exchange" work.
In his own words,
"It was determining how to integrate the weapons systems and training routines to transform the
