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Aha, O’Shaughnessy is retired, and here is his replacment, and a statement from Sec Def Miller from the Wictor thread:

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/467046/lieutenant-general-glen-d-vanherck/

GENERAL GLEN D. VANHERCK

Gen. Glen D. VanHerck is Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command. USNORTHCOM conducts homeland defense, civil support and security cooperation to defend and secure the United States and its interests. NORAD conducts aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning in the defense of North America.

Gen. VanHerck is a graduate of the University of Missouri and commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He has a diverse background that includes operational and training assignments in the F-15C Eagle, F-35A Lighting II, B-2A Spirit and B-1B Lancer aircraft. He has served as an instructor pilot and flight examiner in the F-15C, B-2A and T-6A Texan II. Additionally, he served as a U.S. Air Force Weapons School instructor in the F-15C and the B-2A.

He has commanded at the squadron, group and twice at the wing level, including the 325th Weapons Squadron, the 71st Operations Group, the 7th Bomb Wing, the 509th Bomb Wing. As a major general, he commanded the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center. His staff assignments include tours as the Chief of the B-2 Program Element Monitor at Headquarters Air Combat Command, the Director of Operations at Headquarters Air Force Global Strike Command, the Director of Plans and Integration at U.S. Strategic Command, the Vice Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy (J5) at the Joint Staff, and the Vice Director of the Joint Staff.

Prior to his current assignment, Gen. Glen D. VanHerck was the Director, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. In this role, he assisted the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in his role as advisor to the President and Secretary of Defense, coordinated and directed the activities of the Joint Staff in support of the Chairman and served as the Staff Inspector General.
[Much more bio info at link]

REPLY on the Wictor thread:

Miller answering the press on why he went to visit VanHerck at NORTHCOM:

“I wanted to look the guy in the eye and get a sense for his soul and I think he probably needed to do that for me as well. So, you know, that was why I really felt it important to go out and sit down and have a cup of coffee with him, talk about it, small group, think through it, make sure we, kinda, had that mind meld.”

If you believe in things

You don’t understand

Then you suffer

Suprrstition ain’t the way

Pardon me, but what planet did you beam *that* remark down from?

666 has its roots in inferences about the value of the "mark of the Beast" in Revelation; and thence entered popular culture as a placeholder/proxy for reference to the Devil, or evil.

Given how Rush was reviled by the left I'd just as soon not leave the discussion open to cheap shots from trolls.