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| 2019-11-25 |
| It's Kurt [Townhall] Mark this day on your calendar because here is the moment that I admit that Barack Obama did something right. He fired Army General Stanley McChrystal. Now, I would have fired him well before for failing to win the Afghanistan War. In World War II, which America incidentally won, we fired lots of generals and admirals for failing to win. It was nothing personal. You aren’t winning, so "Next!" Obama did (gently) fire McChrystal’s predecessor for failing to win; he was a good officer who, by coincidence, was literally onstage talking to my Army War College class the moment Obama’s firing of McChrystal was announced. But that’s about the only big-name general fired for not winning since the not-coincidentally Endless War on Terror™ began. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 The navy record, inter alia: Naval Academy Rocked By Drug Scandal;www.zerohedge .com/news/2018-02-24; Drug Ring Bought Cocaine With Bitcoin. Current reports estimate ten midshipmen were part of the elaborate scheme to supply midshipmen throughout the Naval Academy with powerful drugs including cocaine, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and Ketamine. ... the criminal ring used Bitcoins to purchase the drugs on the dark web then distributed the product throughout campus. Two Dozen Expelled in Naval Academy Cheating Scandal By Paul Valentine The Washington Post. Navy Secretary John H. Dalton ordered 24 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen expelled Thursday in the biggest cheating scandal in the school's history, ending a wrenching 16-month investigation of the venerable military institution in Annapolis. |
| Posted by: b 2019-11-25 07:24 |
| #5 Ref #4: The Army promotion system is a social petri dish and has been for decades. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-25 06:54 |
| #4 Lincoln fired a lot of generals. Just saying. You know the personnel system was ****** when successful battlefield commanders were not accelerated in promotion cause the 'system' was too bureaucratic. Fairness is not a word for the Darwinistic environment of combat and war. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-25 06:50 |
| #3 Posing is a capital offense. Unless you're a Deep State poseur, in which case you're a national hero like Ulysses S. Flounder. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-25 03:32 |
| #2 I polished up that handle so carefully That now I am the ruler of the Queen's Navy. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2019-11-25 02:37 |
| #1 The boss of the navy was fired, for violating the chain of command by going around the secretary of defense. What happens at lower levels is not yet clear. From what you say it seems like other heads should roll. It did seem odd that the only thing Gallagher should be convicted of is 'posing'. Who knew that that was a serious crime? Is it a felony? Something more significant, like jay walking, or picking one's nose in public, would sound like a better justification for demoting him. |
| Posted by: Daniel 2019-11-25 02:03 |