Posted on 11/26/2024 9:13:57 AM PST by timza
I have searched using my limited ability to find the military education of Pete Hegseth. I cannot find anything except he attended Basic Training at Fort Benning, GA. That is very poor reporting. Officers do not attend Basic Training, they attend the Infantry Officers Basic Course. But I digress. What advanced military schooling has he attended? His actual military experience is quite limited. So I am curious of his capability. I like the guy, but I am curious as to how he would respond to the following questions asked off the cuff.
What is CMOC and how is it composed?
What are and explain the three levels of warfare.
What is the difference between mobile and area defense?
What are and explain the US principles of war. How are they applied?
What are the major training commands of each of the military services.
Distinguish between combined operations, joint operations, combined arms operations, and special operations.
What is a Joint Event Life Cycle?
The U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) comprises at least twenty-six agencies, each with specific roles and responsibilities. How does each agency report to the Secretary of Defense? What is the Chain of Command for the numerous DOD agencies? How are their functions synchronized to support the overall DOD mission?
Fixed it.
Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is military service, albeit not with a Troop Program Unit (TPU - Reserves or National Guard). An individual can earn enough points to qualify that year towards a retirement pension, just as TPU members do.
It's hard to do that, since IRR solidiers don't have scheduled monthly weekend drills to earn 24 of the 50 points for a qualifying year. Lots of correspondence courses, and hope the system processes them to get that year to qualify.
They can also be called up as individual replacements for a unit needing their particular skill set, rank, and branch.
Been there, done that.
And big respect to Pete for volunteering for some tough assignments when a lot of his peers were sitting on their butts.
, he is putting loyalty at a higher premium
My eyes see something different.
The test is passion for MAGA.
I think when I served (1967-1971) the two years (1972-1973) I was known as Inactive Reserve...Is this the same as today’s Individual Ready Reserve
I think when I served (1967-1971) the two years (1972-1973) I was known as Inactive Reserve...Is this the same as today’s Individual Ready Reserve
My brother enlisted in the USAF. He had a degree and had already received an endorsement from Senator Sam Nunn and another Georgia politician. They made him a Red Rope from the start and after a few months he was promoted from Airman to Staff Sergeant with an OTS slot at Medina Annex, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
RE: Les Aspin? I doubt anyone could be worse.
Robert McNamara under LBJ. The worst in my lifetime.
That hasn't occurred in our exchange. I said your words "could read" as much as though you see a lady and I see a tiger.
The question in this instance is not which of us sees the correct image, the question is whether such a picture is even relevant (personal life v job qualifications).
You raise a number of debatable points in your response, but let's talk about this one:
Trump said he was blindsided by the revelations of Hegseth’s personal problems.
Do you have a link where Trump said those words? Do you have a link where his team said it was "blindsided"? It appears you may be relying on the words of others as broadcasted by several biased news outlets.
IMO, if at any time Trump 2.0 thought Hegseth's personal life was a disabling factor Hegseth would have withdrawn his name.
What you said here is not quite right. You are talking about OTC that is a mode outside of college, not concurrent with it.
Individuals who enlist into the Army ROTC in exchange for college funding DO attend Basic Training that any enlisted not-yet-commissioned person receives, knowing that if one does not complete the requirements for obtaining a degree and a commission, he/she still has to complete the time in service for which he/she signed up. The Basic Training period is completed while the candidate is still in college.
U. S. Army ROTC recruiting details:
"Become an Army leader through Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) (click here), which teaches valuable skills and covers your college education."
That sounds like a name that Clinton would have made up for a bullshit degree.
how about william cohen...he WAS in military but never saw action and did not attend any military academies before serving in the military.
My greatest learning experience came when I failed my first ARTEP as a Platoon Leader. I learned what I could and couldn’t do. From that point on, it was smooth sailing.
I’m looking for Pete to keep the REMFs and staff pukes away from our soldiers and service members. Butterbars need the time to learn their jobs.
Oh yeah. It reminds me of the saying, Figures never lie, but liars are always figuring how to word something to make to appear to be threatening in some manner or fashion, when it comes to the opposition of their beliefs, if one can call them that, because their beliefs change like the wind.
Exactly…how did Mattis, Kelley and Milley workout? Let Hegseth unleash the hounds.
After a long continuous list of managers who have brought the military to its knees, not just within but with its reputation and image with the public and with the recruiting age group and their parents, we want and need someone who can break it back and focus on some major flaws, the very flaws that Hegseth is obsessed with and determined to fix, no matter what.
Another manager can’t do it, only an high energy obsessed radical can tackle this leftist agenda, and he does it with the full backing of the Commander in Chief, and presumably the coming Secretaries.
Princeton and Harvard.
Newsmax had a chart of all the Secretaries of Defense in the past decades. Not ONE of them had been in war/battle. He’s the first.
It sort of follows how Trump works. The top echelon of officers and military bigwigs came to him, all pretentious and arrogant, and presented him with their plans.
Then Trump had someone coordinate a group of regular soldiers to meet with him to get THEIR input and suggestions.
He trusts the people who have done the job more than the elitists to expound on things they have never experienced.
(It’s said that this is when Milley, etc., turned on him. They were offended.)
Yes he is. Thanks for the support
People may disagree with our opinion, but to make the right choice on whom to throw our support behind, the criteria is not whether he slept with some 17 year old girl.
The criteria is who is going to fight to save this country. And Hegseth is going to take his orders from the Commander in Chief...Trump.
Thank you!
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