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2013-12-19 Government

US Army to RIF 4000 captains and majors.

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 07:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Following the war in Korea there was also a draconian RIF. Bird colonels who had made it up through the ranks were busted to SFC. They accepted the humiliation to get their thirty year retirement pay.

Posted by Fat Bob Glerens2255 2013-12-19 08:45|| 2013-12-19 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 The one federal department that they actually have no problem cutting. The same Donks who cried about 'not enough troops' during the Bush administration's war in Iraq have no problem cutting that margin they insisted was needed. It's all politics and power.

If the one thing that fundamentally justifies a nation state, which is national defense, can be cut, why not every other department and agency? /rhet question

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2013-12-19 09:08|| 2013-12-19 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 When are we going to get a RIF for generals?

Posted by Frozen Al 2013-12-19 10:27|| 2013-12-19 10:27|| Front Page Top

#4 ...seems this administration has no problem ~~purging~~ jettisoning generals. It's more an issue of retiring GO billets from the force structure.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2013-12-19 10:34|| 2013-12-19 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 All conservatives must be destroyed to right the ship of equality.

~ The Oprah algorithm.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 10:39|| 2013-12-19 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Commanding Generals fired:
General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quanticos Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2013-12-19 11:34|| 2013-12-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 And so many of them have so boldly and courageously spoken out.

[no sark tag required]

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 11:38|| 2013-12-19 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 And so many of them have so boldly and courageously spoken out.

Would you want the IRS and NSA coming down on you? The SEIU and Occupy Wall Streeters camped in your front yard....

Posted by Beavis 2013-12-19 12:07|| 2013-12-19 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ...yeah, the '70's...I recall my discharge date when I was outprocessed by an E-5 who I served under when he was an 0-4. Don't know who was more embarrased...

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-12-19 13:02|| 2013-12-19 13:02|| Front Page Top

#10 ayuh. cause the world is so much safer now....

Posted by Don Vito Forkbeard9303 2013-12-19 15:43|| 2013-12-19 15:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah, my OPO officer told me that if I made the permanent captain list and the Majors list, I was bullet proof. I graduated from the Armor Advanced course as an honor graduate and made the Major's list as a 2%er and got my notice while I was on leave in Spain. Considering what I did and seeing who they kept, I was pissed for years.

I wonder if this is like those political purges that Trotski and company did of the Russian Army Officer Corps to weed out the strong and only keep those who were blindly obedient to the Bolsheviks...me thinks this is all part of the master plan to declare martial law and suspend the next election.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-12-19 23:12|| 2013-12-19 23:12|| Front Page Top

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