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Is Obama Sparking a Second “Revolt of the Admirals”?
The Nav Log ^ | 9/22/09 | ip568@charter.net

Posted on 09/22/2009 10:37:50 AM PDT by pabianice

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To: pabianice

Our military people is NOT in the blind of the usurper’s treason, PTL!!!


21 posted on 09/22/2009 11:11:13 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Kartographer
bump to that.....

...drip drip drip

22 posted on 09/22/2009 11:11:36 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: pabianice

And didnt Forrestal die under very mysterious circumstances? Its ironic that they named the new class of carriers after him.


23 posted on 09/22/2009 11:11:56 AM PDT by blackminorca
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To: mel

At the site:

http://www.jeffhead.com/americaawakes.htm

Click on the wide angle picture. That will bring up a higher res version of the same in a seperate window. You can right click on that higher res version and save it to your disk.

Please pass that site around. The more who see the truth of 912, the better.


24 posted on 09/22/2009 11:18:20 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Mamzelle
'McChrystal" (with "ch") is the correct spelling.

After the famous photo of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945 appeared in the newspapers, someone commented that that ensured the survival of the US Marine Corps for the next 500 years. They almost didn't survive the next 5 years.

The late Gen. Victor Krulak wrote an interesting account of the struggles in the late 1940s that almost doomed his Marine Corps.

25 posted on 09/22/2009 11:19:15 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: blackminorca

bttt


26 posted on 09/22/2009 11:28:37 AM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: pabianice

Thank you for posting this.

Very educational! Why I like FR! :)


27 posted on 09/22/2009 11:30:16 AM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: Sequoyah101
Nailed it!

We have to stop looking at the Obama administration as a bunch of Ted Mack Amateur Hour contestants. They're not. Everything they're doing is deliberate.

28 posted on 09/22/2009 11:31:12 AM PDT by Dahoser (The missus and I joined the NRA. Who says Obama can't inspire conservatives?)
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To: pabianice
I had to share this hysterical post at the bottom of this article:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/09/22/2076663.aspx

So, let me get this straight: the plan for the war that Obama implemented is not working, the situation on the ground is getting worse, the general he put in charge is recommending a change in course,and obamawants to keep the plan but do LESS of it? I was afraid that Obamawould be Jimmy Carter part 2, but I was wrong. Jimmy Carter had a modicum of common sense, despite having seen aliens in 1969, and his well documented fear of killer rabbits. Obama just has an ego. Which must be fed, frequently.
29 posted on 09/22/2009 11:39:41 AM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: pabianice
I just don't see any parallels here.

The revolt of the admirals was over roles and missions (in which the USAF tried to displace traditional funding for some elements of national strategy away from the Navy). For those who have never worked in the pentagon, such inter-service squabbling takes place all the time, on a smaller scale, admittedly, with the USAF as the usual interloper attempting to take funding from the army and navy.

The debate taking place now is more serious; lives of soldiers already deployed in a war zone are at stake and the occupant of the white house seems indifferent to their well being.

I can't think of a single instance in U.S. military history where the president (so called in this case, because in my mind, his legitimacy is still questionable) has shown such cavalier disregard for the lives of soldiers in a war zone.

30 posted on 09/22/2009 11:56:29 AM PDT by OldCorps
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To: OldCorps

The Air Force has long had a superiority complex when it comes to the Navy and Marines. The name of the general escapes me, but the ranking Air Force general in the European theater towards the end of WW2, made the statement “why do we need a Navy?”


31 posted on 09/22/2009 1:35:42 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: pabianice
I have mixed feelings about the military and politics. I have always believed that the military should be nonpolitical, but it has taken me a long time to realize that the military has been political for decades. Maybe the private in the foxhole is not political, but the top brass is all about politics. These commanders are political appointees and their positions of power are not based upon military merit. It's all about whose political butt you are willing to kiss. If these generals and admirals were primarily concerned for those under them, they would all resign as a protest against Obama’s policies. I can't imagine how anyone could knowingly send men and women in harms way for a lost cause.
32 posted on 09/22/2009 1:40:23 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Jeff Head

Great photo! Thanks for the link. Could you change the spelling of “advise” to “advice” at the top of the page?


33 posted on 09/22/2009 1:49:09 PM PDT by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: petitfour

Hehehe...yes. I have taken your advice when you advised me to correct that spelling...and have now done so!

http://www.jeffhead.com/americaawakes.htm

Please spread that link/site around. The more who see the truth about what happened that day and how many were there, the better.


34 posted on 09/22/2009 1:57:09 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: sasportas

The name of the Air Force General was Spaatz, I believe.


35 posted on 09/22/2009 1:57:20 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: pepsionice

Funny how you don’t learn from history, isn’t it. It’s why we lost in Vietnam too. If Laos allowed the Viet Cong to hole up in Laos, then you bomb Laos and make no apologies. Same with Cambodia.

You fight until they don’t want to fight anymore. In this case, we are the ones that don’t want to fight any more, not because we are beaten on the field, but because our CinC has a head full of mush and a spine to match. All of this after lambasting Bush about how ‘The Real War is in Afghanistan’.

This guy is worse than I ever thought he was going to be.


36 posted on 09/22/2009 1:58:51 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Jeff Head

I was about to do just that when I saw the misspelling. I know how easy it is to have a typo on a website when you are doing a lot of things at once. (Hubby depends on me to catch his typos.) Now if I could get the image to appear on the Facebook link, I would be much happier.


37 posted on 09/22/2009 2:17:05 PM PDT by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: Dahoser

Thank you. Many have no idea what a useless and dangerous rabble military is without their leaders who have advanced through the system.

Without leadership and strategic mission the whole is far less than the sum of its parts ...with both and tactics plus initiative the whole is far, far greater than the sum of its parts.

Without a vision the people perish.


38 posted on 09/22/2009 3:22:40 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: pabianice

???

http://www.network54.com/Forum/578302/thread/1253663715/last-1253663715/Gunny+G-+Fallon+Resigns%85.Yeah%2C+The+Same+Adm+Fallon%85Who+Derided+Petraeus+as+Suck-Up%2C+....


39 posted on 09/22/2009 5:02:38 PM PDT by gunnyg (SUFFER NO FOOLS -Gunny G)
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To: sasportas
Lol, the Air Force has been selling snake oil since way before they were even the air force, then the Army Air Corps. The sad thing is, many of them actually believe their own propaganda.

It is not coincidental that Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld had a JCS chairman who was a USAF general. Both pretty much bought the USAF propaganda.

Remember the "Shock and Awe" campaign? You just know the USAF had a committee at the pentagon come up with that little phrase.

I called it Blah and Jaw from day 1.

40 posted on 09/22/2009 5:35:16 PM PDT by OldCorps
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