Once the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations started digging into corruption in Army noncommissioned officers' clubs in Viet Nam, it began to turn up scandals involving everything from B-girl rings comprised of shanghaied actresses to a "little Mafia" of top sergeants who systematically bilked service clubs of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two weeks ago, a federal grand jury indicted six present or former noncoms, including the former Sergeant Major of the Army, William Wooldridge.
Now the investigators are hunting even bigger game. They are drawing a bead on the affairs of William...