Pubdate: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 Source: Bergen Record (NJ) Copyright: 2001 Bergen Record Corp. Contact: 150 River St., Hackensack, NJ 07601 Fax: (201) 646-4749 Feedback: http://www.bergen.com/cgi-bin/feedback Website: http://www.bergen.com/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mccaffrey.htm (McCaffrey, Barry) VETERAN OF WAR ON DRUGS TO RETURN TO WEST POINT WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Gen. Barry McCaffrey, for five years the nation's point man in the war against drugs, is going back to the classroom. The decorated four-star general and 1966 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy will return to West Point to teach. McCaffrey earned two Distinguished Service Crosses for extraordinary heroism and two Silver Stars for exceptional valor. He also has three Purple Hearts. He fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf war. But in a December interview with The Associated Press, the outgoing director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy said, "I've seen more misery in this job, more human destruction than I did in combat." He will join the faculty at West Point as its Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security Studies. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D