Yep, if Gen. Ward was a white guy, he would be taking the Long Course at Fort Leavenworth!!!Army???s Top General Backs Leniency for Gen. Kip Wardby Zenitha PrinceSpecial to the AFROU.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, supports allowing Gen. William ???Kip??? Ward, a Black four-star general and former commander of the U.S. Africa Command, to retire as a four-star ge