Posted on 03/18/2016 2:01:41 PM PDT by Iron Munro
Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson will be nominated as the next head of U.S. Northern Command, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Friday. If approved, she would be the first female head of a combatant command.
The U.S. military divides the world into geographic regions that are each overseen by a four-star general or admiral directing military operations across the branches of service. None of those combatant commanders has ever been a woman.
Northern Command, or Northcom, is charged with defending the U.S. homeland. The current commander of NorthCom, Admiral Bill Gortney, is also the commander of the well-known North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD.
Robinson currently commands U.S. Air Forces in the Pacific. Her rise through the ranks has been rapid, Defense News reports: The general achieved her third star in 2013 and her fourth in 2014.
NPR's Tom Bowman described Robinson's career on the Two-Way last year, when word was circulating that President Obama was considering naming a woman to take over Northcom:
"Robinson was the first woman to lead a major Air Force component command, and served as a senior air battle manager aboard an E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft and the E-8 JSTARS — essentially responsible for command and control of combat missions, as well as surveillance."
Robinson's nomination would need to be confirmed by the Senate.
And adult white heterosexual males will need other permits to attend college or be employed.
Ridiculous.
Is she a lesbian trans-gender?
We might as well hit all the PC quotas while we’re at it.
Or require him to be sent to 13 years of white-guilt indoctrination center education.
Maybe in the ladies gym locker room... ?
“The general achieved her third star in 2013 and her fourth in 2014.”
I’m almost certain this was based solely on performance and qualifications. I’m also certain her male counterparts of same rank are just smitten with this rapid rise while they’ve waited for years.
I’ve never heard of a rise that quickly
Mission Accomplished.
Oh good, now it can be just like feminist TV, where every woman is a ninja and can beat twelve men at once.
How many of our men will die before she is demoted?
Step-daughter.
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Thank you for the correction.
I’ll have to do some research on what the republican candidates are saying about what they’ll do.
I apologize if I seemed rude.
She's already got 1 kill.
Looks like another fast track success story in the making.
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My guess is they will stampede over each other to get to the YES button.
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