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2014-02-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Somebody doesn't like the messenger: Marine Corps Times first casualty in headquarters' war

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Direct violation of Freedom of Press, a component of the U.S. Constitution these soldiers are supposed to be defending, rights the socialist regime/commander in chief is stripping from military personnel.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-10 00:32|| 2014-02-10 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The doctor moved away about the same time passenger service ended and the depot was torn down. Then the paper folded and the grocery story closed. Not much around here anymore. With all the young people moving away, I honestly don't know what will become of Oceania. Must be all in the greater plan.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-10 03:38|| 2014-02-10 03:38|| Front Page Top

#3 You've heard of "making sure everybody is on the same page"?
This is option 'B' (no page).

Posted by ed in texas 2014-02-10 07:17|| 2014-02-10 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 The Army-Air Force Exchange System is under DoD not the Commandant, so just hop on over to the base or post exchange near you to get your copy at the checkout. It's interesting that the 'independent' paper (Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, along with its Marine Times) was critical of Chaney, but it never was moved off line because of it. Use the quotes because its ultimately owned and operated by the usual suspects in the journalism cabal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-10 08:56|| 2014-02-10 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 ts ultimately owned and operated by the usual suspects in the journalism cabal.

According to the article at the headline link, the Marine Corps Times is a Gannett paper.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-02-10 09:42|| 2014-02-10 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona. Other significant newspapers include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press and The News-Press in Fort Myers.

So how have they covered Fast&Furious, Benghazi, the IRS politicization, etc.? Same as the rest of MSM.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-10 11:22|| 2014-02-10 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 The Commandant is a REMF.

Posted by Sgt. D.T. 2014-02-10 11:26|| 2014-02-10 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 General Amos command tours have included: Marine Wing Support Squadron 173 from 1985-1986; Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 attached to Carrier Air Wing 8 onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) from 1991-1993; Marine Aircraft Group 31 from 1996-1998; 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in combat during Operations IRAQI FREEDOM I and II from 2002-2004; II Marine Expeditionary Force from 2004-2006; and Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration from 2006 to 2008. Additional operational tours have included Marine Fighter Attack Squadrons 212, 235, 232, and 122.

General Amos staff assignments include tours with Marine Aircraft Groups 15 and 31, the III Marine Amphibious Force, Training Squadron Seven, The Basic School, and with the MAGTF Staff Training Program. Additionally, he was assigned to NATO as Deputy Commander, Naval Striking Forces, Southern Europe, Naples Italy where he commanded NATOs Kosovo Verification Center, and later served as Chief of Staff, U.S. Joint Task Force Noble Anvil during the air campaign over Serbia. Transferred in 2000 to the Pentagon, he was assigned as Assistant Deputy Commandant for Aviation. Reassigned in December 2001, General Amos served as the Assistant Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations, Headquarters, Marine Corps. From 2008-2010 General Amos served as the 31st Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

He's not one of my favorite Commandants (I've worked with much better ones,) but he's not exactly a REMF, to use a hoary Viet Name-era acronym.

Posted by Pappy 2014-02-10 12:54|| 2014-02-10 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 30 + years in the the Corps and he has never been a gunfight or fired a shot in anger. He's a POG...

Posted by Sonny Bluetooth1791 2014-02-10 15:01|| 2014-02-10 15:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Again, anonymous poster, I'm no fan of the current Commandant. I've worked with better. Much better.

But, on a philosophical point, being in a "gunfight" or firing a shot "in anger" is not a sole qualifier for leadership. Look at John McCain or John Kerry.

Posted by Pappy 2014-02-10 17:08|| 2014-02-10 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Or on the flip side, Eisenhower.

I'm a civilian here, and do not understand many peripheral aspects of the military such as Marine Corps Times, but it is my understanding that (in modern times, land forces) after a certain rank the opportunity to personally fire in anger is almost non-existant or something very wrong has happened?

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-02-10 18:11|| 2014-02-10 18:11|| Front Page Top

#12 After a certain level, yes. But colonels and such still see action.

To further my comment to our anonymous war-hero: there were a lot of lousy, little, nasty operations in the 80s and 90s that didn't make much press, that still killed and wounded some of us that were in them. But just because you didn't hear of it doesn't mean that anyone pinning on a star who you don't think saw combat is a "POG."

I don't know if Amos was in any of them. I highly doubt it. He's a lousy Commandant. But I wouldn't rule out him seeing action.

Posted by Pappy 2014-02-10 21:38|| 2014-02-10 21:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Ditto at #12. Dead in the service of one's country due to a hostile act, is just as dead.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-10 21:44|| 2014-02-10 21:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Nothing sez the USMC folks that wanted the paper couldn't subscribe to it; then if delivery was suspended, there would have to be an investigation since mail tampering is a felony.....

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