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Anybody know status of his application to return to Active Duty?
Betrayus may have been a great general, but he’s a sleezeball.
What the Sam Hill is going on?
Seriously, the Hussein administration is even shadier than the Clinton administration!
This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.
I wonder if he recommended the downgrade before or while he was banging his pet lieutenant colonel?
Then, I was:
Then I remembered:
So, I smiled...
It’s the arrogance of higher headquarters. The actual fighting is done by Captains and Lieutenants in the Officer corps. On the Enlisted side, it’s E-7 and below. There are some individual cases that are different and Special Ops is also different. But, higher headquarters are staffed and run by E-8 and above and Major and above. Now, there’s a lot of important work done by staff Soldiers at higher headquarters, but they don’t do a lot of shooting. This makes for a constant tension between “The Line Doggies” doing the shooting and “The Staff Weanies” who are doing the planning and coordinating and so forth. Every Combat Arms Soldier wants to think that he’s a steely-eyed killer. And the staff in Combat Arms units are predominantly Combat Arms Officers. The staff feels under-appreciated by the units, and the units feel under-appreciated by the staff. The staffs are composed of older Soldiers who should understand their duties and not be jealous of the personnel in the units. That’s how it’s supposed to work. But, staff Soldiers are human beings with all the emotions that humans have. This just serves as another indicator to me of what a small man Petraeus is.
Petraeus came into the Army when Captains and above were all wearing their Vietnam era decorations. Petreaus and his contempories didn’t have any of that and they resented those who did. Hence Petreaus’ pride in all of his largely meaningless fruit salad.
Told me not to trust him when he joined the obama administration. Guilt by association. I don’t trust any democrat, anyone in the obama administration, most government employees, most Republicans and 98+% of the media.
I’ve been reading The Aviators by
Winston Groom, a biography about Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Lindbergh and Jimmy Doolittle. I should probably write a review on it and post it here, but suffice for now to say that it’s a great great book that should be read by all. If you have a Kindle, read a sampling.
The most striking thing about these three men, among many other things, is their integrety, honesty and courage, making me wonder if there is any one currently in our country who comes close to any of them.
Do we have any heros in public life these day, and true leaders? Surely, there must be, but where are they?
Petraeus is a coward who would not be worthy to shine these men’s boots.
This is a good smoke signal.