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2019-03-22 Home Front: Politix
Marine Corps commander: Using troops at southern border an 'unacceptable risk' to readiness
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-22 05:40|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
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#1 Er huh.... Exercises in Scotland and Mongolia ?

"Improvise, adapt, and overcome" General. Follow orders and drive on!
Or is time you drop your retirement paperwork ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-22 05:49||   2019-03-22 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 You exist to protect the homeland. Millions of invaders have cross the border. You have failed. Why do you exist?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-22 07:48||   2019-03-22 07:48|| Front Page Top

#3 He seems to have lost sight that "Defend the US border" is marine job#1.


Have you got an accountant running the Marines?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-22 07:57||   2019-03-22 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Chesty Puller he ain't.
Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-03-22 08:37||   2019-03-22 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Babylon Bee material here for sure.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-22 09:17||   2019-03-22 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Does seem it could provide an excellant training opportunity for creative leadership. Oh, and bust the drug mules and anyone involved in sex trafficking and put them in Guantanimo for awhile as possible spies/terrorists and we'll see a massive drop off in the crossings.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-03-22 10:13||   2019-03-22 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 You can train wherever you are. You don't just need to go to exotic locations to play with expensive toys to have good training.

You have failed, general.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-22 10:26||   2019-03-22 10:26|| Front Page Top

#8 De hell?
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-22 10:39||   2019-03-22 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Depends on what you're getting ready for, doesn't it?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-22 11:19||   2019-03-22 11:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Well it seems training abroad is harming the marines ability to defend America.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-22 12:18||   2019-03-22 12:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Poppycock. At the individual, platoon company and even battalion staff level that are a wide range of individual and collective tasks that can be exercised and honed doing border security, perimeter defense planning, patrolling and small unit tactics. This is myopic and reflects an unwillingness to disconnect from prior and large scale commitments. The President, the Commander in Chief, has stated, in his assessment that this is a National Emergency. That should be all you need to know General to pull your head out of your ass and move out to the objective!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-03-22 16:22||   2019-03-22 16:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Amen at #11.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-22 16:34||   2019-03-22 16:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Robert Blake Neller: He assumed his current assignment on September 24, 2015.

All you need to know.
Posted by Ulolutch Omeamp6391 2019-03-22 16:47||   2019-03-22 16:47|| Front Page Top

#14 General, either you Salute and Execute (the orders), or resign. A swamp denizen or Obama holdover for CMC - time for him to be cashiered out if he doesn't retire on his own.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-03-22 19:11||   2019-03-22 19:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Hell yes. Retire or, no just leave.

At least he won the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal...
Posted by Woodrow 2019-03-22 19:58||   2019-03-22 19:58|| Front Page Top

#16 On behalf of his employers -- the citizens of the United States -- I accept his resignation.
Posted by charger 2019-03-22 21:06||   2019-03-22 21:06|| Front Page Top

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