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Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Stalin Lite.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-12-18 01:05|| 2015-12-18 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Or Erdogan Jr.

Posted by SteveS 2015-12-18 01:08|| 2015-12-18 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Much longer than that.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2015-12-18 01:22|| 2015-12-18 01:22|| Front Page Top

#4 As always bad journalism. It might be truth and with a Marxist President like Obama doesn't surprise me, but for that article to have any value, it needs to get to other years information.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2015-12-18 01:26|| 2015-12-18 01:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Plenty of evidence
And that's 2013, after which I was told shit is dire.

It's a shell force after every democrat President. Every time.

Hell, I covered this in my timeline long ago as it was happening.

However, I knew of some Flag Officers that needed to be purges and that should not count on his record....
But the "Leadership" of new appointments should.

Posted by newc 2015-12-18 01:30|| 2015-12-18 01:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Looking at the list at http://www.standupamericaus.org/breaking-news/obama-purging-the-military-197-officers-in-5-years/

I see that 157 were Army Majors presumably terminated as part of a reduction in force (RIF) during 2011, and 24 Naval officers who were let go in 2012 were Commanders and Captains - most of the were likely O-6'S who were passed over as part of another RIF.

So - a grand total of 16 appear to have been flag officers.

The bogosity of the headline number pretty much impeaches the credibility of the entire story.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-12-18 01:31|| 2015-12-18 01:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Purges, hell! It's the resignations in the middle grades who had to put up with the normal bs having to deal with even greater crap flavored PC. Those who 'can do' have no problem finding a job on the outside. Guess no one learned from the collapse of the Iraqi army rife with politically reliable 'leadership'.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2015-12-18 08:13|| 2015-12-18 08:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I seem to remember this happening with every president, maybe more so with O.
What should be interesting is the purge when a Republican is president in 2017.
I suspect the "gay" meme drys up pretty quick.

Posted by jvalentour 2015-12-18 10:00|| 2015-12-18 10:00|| Front Page Top

#9 157 were Army Majors
Middle management, up from the ranks.
Too old to fight, too opinionated to mingle with PC (politically compliant).

Posted by Skidmark 2015-12-18 11:29|| 2015-12-18 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 I seem to remember a number of general officers that were "asked" to retire, such as Gen. Ham in US African Command, and a couple of more. Not all at once, but spread out over the last seven years. I also know two general officers who were told they would NEVER get promoted, that they were guaranteed shitty jobs, and "suggested" to retire. And I'd bet there are a heckuva lot more than 197 -- closer to 400. Not to include RIFs.

Posted by Old Patriot 2015-12-18 21:08|| 2015-12-18 21:08|| Front Page Top

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