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Gen. Stanley McChrystal retirement
Big Bureaucracy ^ | July 24th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

Posted on 07/24/2010 3:32:20 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, awards the Distinguished Service Medal to U.S. Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as he stands with is wife, Annie, during a retirement ceremony on Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C., July 23, 2010. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry D. Morrison

Looks like Gen. McChrystal and his wife are really trying hard to hold the emotions inside. Awkward moment. Defense Secretary Robert Gates summed it up:

We bid farewell to Stan McChrystal today with pride and sadness. Pride for his unique record as a man and soldier; sadness that our comrade and his prestigious talents are leaving us.
Let's hope the new media engagement rules will prevent Rolling Stone from defeating our top command in the future.

I wonder what will come up when McChystal and his wife open their mouth and are free to talk.

Watch the whole photo-essay here


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: gates; mcchrystal; myblog; retirement
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1 posted on 07/24/2010 3:32:21 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy
Let's hope the new media engagement rules will prevent Rolling Stone from defeating our top command in the future.

the malignant little crap weasel that wrote that hit piece should be fragged. but mchrystal defeated himself.

2 posted on 07/24/2010 3:37:44 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Big Bureaucracy

I would have left without the party.


3 posted on 07/24/2010 3:37:49 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: JohnBrowdie

McChrystal supposedly voted for the muslim saudi agent.


4 posted on 07/24/2010 3:39:39 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: JohnBrowdie

True - nobody can do to us as much harm as we can do to ourselves.


5 posted on 07/24/2010 3:39:43 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy
Your Question: "I wonder what will come up when McChystal and his wife open their mouth and are free to talk."

Response: If he or his wife talks his pension will be reduced to that level payable to his former permanent rank. Further, not being familiar with the arcana of military law there may be some sort of legal penalty that would attach.

6 posted on 07/24/2010 3:40:10 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Frantzie

Who lives by the liberal - gets fired by the liberal... or something like that?


7 posted on 07/24/2010 3:40:46 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Bummer! So they will stay quiet?


8 posted on 07/24/2010 3:41:36 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

A co-worker of mine who served in the military says there is actually a rule forbidding the military from publically speaking out against the CIC. Whether this applies to retired military, I don’t know.

In any case, keep in mind who will be paying his pension and controlling his benefits.


9 posted on 07/24/2010 3:41:56 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Big Bureaucracy
Let's hope the new media engagement rules will prevent Rolling Stone from defeating our top command in the future.

If nothing else, hopefully they will know better than to talk to "Rolling Stone" to begin with.

10 posted on 07/24/2010 3:43:24 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Big Bureaucracy
"sadness that our comrade and his prestigious talents are leaving us."

I just want to vomit when I see that term...especially applied to the military. Does anyone doubt that this is fascism laying in wait???

11 posted on 07/24/2010 3:45:35 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Those with the most to lose, did the least to prevent its happening)
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To: Frantzie
McChrystal supposedly voted for the muslim saudi agent.

Yes, that came from that creep at Politico, Michael Calderone

So why do you repeat it here?

Rumors become facts now.

12 posted on 07/24/2010 3:46:15 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: RWB Patriot

May be book in the future? Running for office?


13 posted on 07/24/2010 3:46:42 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy
Looks like Gen. McChrystal and his wife are really trying hard to hold the emotions inside. Awkward moment. Yes, they are and yes, it is. Been there, done that. After a long career, it can feel as if your whole life is being pulled out from under you, every thing you worked for and lived for. With additional emotional turmoil for the McChrystals, wish them all the very best.
14 posted on 07/24/2010 3:48:04 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (TJ))
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To: Outlaw Woman

Gates has a degree in Soviet history. ‘Comrade’ was a bit awkward.


15 posted on 07/24/2010 3:48:50 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy
May be book in the future? Running for office?

President of The United States of America, I hope.

16 posted on 07/24/2010 3:49:37 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: ArmyTeach

I thought this photo sums the moment perfectly - picture worth many words.


17 posted on 07/24/2010 3:50:13 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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To: Big Bureaucracy

Yes ...


18 posted on 07/24/2010 3:51:51 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (TJ))
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Really. When Norman Schwartzkopf wrote his autobiography did he get his pension gigged? How about when William Westmoreland wrote his?
19 posted on 07/24/2010 3:54:37 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Where is he going to work now? Did he say yet?


20 posted on 07/24/2010 3:58:57 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
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