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Top US Army job unfilled after abortion standoff

2023-08-05

[Dawn] The US Army’s chief of staff stepped down on Friday, leaving a second military branch without a confirmed leader as a politician stalls the approval of Pentagon nominations to protest efforts to aid ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion access for troops.

More than 300 nominations — including the generals selected as the next heads of the Army and the Marine Corps — are awaiting confirmation by the US Senate, and the number continues to grow.

The Senate can still vote on nominees individually, but the "hold" by Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, means they cannot be quickly approved in groups by unanimous consent.

"Unfortunately, today, for the first time in the history of the Department of Defence, two of our services will be operating without Senate-confirmed leadership," Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a ceremony marking the end of General James McConville’s tenure as chief of staff.

"The failure to confirm our superbly qualified senior uniformed leaders undermines our military readiness. It undermines our retention of some of our very best officers. And it is upending the lives of far too many of their spouses, children, and loved ones," he said.

The Pentagon has emphasised that the delay in approving the nominations is negatively impacting military families, as they are unable to plan for things such as school for their children given the uncertainty about where they will be living.

LIVES, CAREERS ’IN LIMBO’
General Randy George — the current vice chief of staff of the Army — has been nominated to replace McConville as the head of the service and will perform those duties in an acting capacity in addition to his current job.

Posted by:trailing wife

#5 It’s an ineffective tourniquet. We need to put one around the neck of the federal government.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-05 09:52

#4 Gotta be honest, this Randy George looks like a REMF sapolio.
In 2008 George returned to the 4th Infantry Division, where he commanded 4th Brigade Combat Team. deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. Following command, he was a fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, chief of the strategic policy division for the Pakistan-Afghanistan coordination cell on the Joint Staff, executive officer to the 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the Army and then executive assistant to the commander of U.S. Central Command. He then returned to Fort Carson as the deputy commanding general (maneuver) of 4th Infantry Division.
After two staff assignments as the director of force management for the Army G-3/5/7 and deputy director for regional operations and force management in the J-3, George took command of the 4th Infantry Division in June 2017. In this role he deployed again to Afghanistan.George’s most recent command, I Corps at Joint Base McChord, after which he served as the senior military asst to the Secretary of Defense. He assumed duties as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army on August 5, 2022.

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-08-05 09:27

On Trump’s attempts to cling to power through force, General Milley reportedly told his colleagues in the Joint Chiefs: “They may try, but they’re not going to f@@###g succeed…You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the ones with the guns.”

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Posted by: Besoeker 2023-08-05 07:13

#2 LIVES, CAREERS ’IN LIMBO’

...Tough. Sh!t.

First, welcome back to the world of uncertainty that you people (the Flag Officers involved, AKA the Echelons Above Reality) left behind long ago in your climb to the top.

Second - and more importantly - improvise, adapt, and overcome, you goddamned idiots. The 2IC in each of those jobs needs to step up and take charge until the goons on Capitol Hill can get their heads out. MAKE DECISIONS - that's what you're paid for. I'm gonna remind you that right now, an O-10 makes nearly eighteen thousand dollars a month - EARN IT.

And I will gently point out to my fellow 'Burgers that the morning the Nazis rolled across their western border into France in 1940...there was no Minister of Defense or Army Chief of Staff, because they had been fired/resigned over a moronic political dispute.

We all know how well that turned out.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2023-08-05 07:00

#1 Exercising the power of Congress per the Constitution.

The failure to confirm our superbly qualified senior uniformed leaders undermines our military readiness

1. They're politicians in uniform.
2. They're managers not warriors.
3. What was the last war they won?
4. If the borders of your homeland are being overrun, what is the purpose of a large standing army?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-08-05 06:54

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