Posted on 07/28/2008 9:45:28 AM PDT by jazusamo
It was more than the uniforms.. That man re-organized units, Screwed up policies and increased mandated draw-down goals so much that I personally saw people who would and should have stayed in bail out of the AF in droves..
I believe that he was the start of the procedual problems that plague the USAF today..
He was the most unpopular Chief of Staff in my 22 years on active duty. I also blame him for a lot of the problems - and his bus driver uniform was ugly. I refused to wear one even though it cost me points when I went before the board.
What kind of a veteran career military man would support John Kerry?
Obama couldn’t have chosen a less respected or more unaccomplished General than McPeak if he had TRIED to do so......excluding Weasel Clark.
McPeak is a dumbass that was not very well-respected.
Then he became a backer of Dean and then Kerry? Seriously poor judgement too.
Maybe he and Clark can go pose for some gay magazine. They may actually find some folks that appreciate them.
Agreed...It goes to show just how little BO knows of our military.
Tony McPeak was probably one of the worst generals to ever head up the USAF. He was and remains a real jackass!
Yep, for him to support Dean, Kerry and now BO and try to say he was once a conservative is complete BS, he could never have been a conservative.
As a retired fighter and flight-test type from the USAF, I agree completely with a previous comment on McPeak: “McPeak is an embarrassment to the Air Force.” This guy was a clown who embarrassed even we pilots. Selection to general usually works well, but there are the six-sigmas to the left in every service. McPeak was ours. Clark is the army’s.
Conservatives for Marixsm?
That would be the "Chuck Hagel wing" of the GOP.
“Manly Man” McPeak was one of the most despised generals in the AF and was/is considered to be an idiot by most including other general officers. He’s a fine example of an officer who should have been sidelined at captain but he was sponsored up through the ranks and his style of political ass-kissing is what gets many of these nitwits to and past the rank of colonel. Think of an AF version of Wesley Clark with all of the same character flaws and worse.
Thanks for your post and your service, I couldn’t agree more.
He backs Obama. Has backed Dean and Kerry as well.
Thus...
For someone who is impatient with ineptitude he certainly is enthralled with incompetence.
Don’t forget about his mandate of V-neck tee shirts (to show your chest hair).
Now this clown needs to do something about the LSD.
I guess that's enough electricity to send a tingle up McPeak's leg.
LOL! That may be why he’s so screwed up.
Fired Admiral Joe Sestak was the Navy's.
Its hard to find a single guy from this period of 1990 to 1995 that can say a single positive word about this general. Last year I ran into some retired O-6 who was on one of McPeak’s staffs in the late 1980s, and he said two or three favorable things....then I brought up the dozen negatives....and he kinda nodded...and suggested that McPeak could be handed the Mona Lisa painting...and he would have suggested or found some way to “fix or improve” the painting....and that was his undoing. As this guy suggested...there was an entire generation of field officer that came up in the early 1990s and saw this behavior...thinking it would get them promoted. The idea still works today...with no one satisfied over any program.
This retired officer then told of the amusing requirement as a Lt in SAC....he was given a simple 2-page regulation and told to take a month to update or improve it. At the end of the four weeks...he made four suggested changes...adding two lines to the regulation. The SAC officer over him looked at the four changes...tossed out two of them, and accepted the final two. That was the third change in the regulation in fifteen years. That was how he learned to only change what needs to be changed...then move onto bigger and better things...like preparing to fight wars.
Unike Wilbur “Bull” Meechum’s Lillian, McPeak’s wife Ellie could kick his a**.
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