“When Obama became president, I remember reading about how he was hollowing out the ranks of the military. He purged the warrior Generals and kept the lefties. He also made it difficult for officer in the middle ranks to be promoted, so they would retire. This left the young, woke and left leaning officers to rise up and assume command. I think this is a big reason why we have the military we do today.”
You are EXACTLY correct. This happened in his second year. He directed a questionnaire be sent to ALL officers 05 and above. All who answered with patriotism, loyalty to God, and country were retired or their promotions to the next higher ranks in the case of 05’s and 06’s were denied. Only those officers who answered with appropriate levels of Leftism were retained and promoted. This message was received loud and clear by those JO’s and mid-rank officers as well as Senior Enlisted who wished to be promoted into the top 3 enlisted ranks.
This Obama purge has cemented Leftist military officer ranks that will take years to rectify IF we ever elect a President aware enough of this issue to tackle it.
Unfortunately, President Trump was so busy defending himself against 24/7 attacks from Dems and RINOs, the Media, etc...he never realized just how leftist our officer ranks had become until it was too late in his presidency.
He is from an era where he had the utmost respect for them. His view of senior officers was Patton, MacArthur, Halsey, Jackson, etc...he didn’t realize until too late there aren’t any like them in today’s senior military officer ranks.
THIS
As accurate a summary as I have seen in a while.
Ding ding ding.
You hit the nail on the head: Obama Purged and the SJWs Surged.
RLTW