The Chief’s Corner, Charles R. Bowery Jr.

Army History ^ | Fall, 2020 | Charles R. Bowery, Jr.

[GreyFriar]

The Chief of the U.S. Army Center of Military has adopted the Leftist "woke" "1619 Project" and Howard Zinn as its new guidance in writing the official history of the U.S. Army.

[GreyFriar]

The future state of the official history of the US Army as it will now be written by historians belonging to the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

[military cop]

Revisionist history.

[SoConPubbie]

I n the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and other people of color, America continues to undergo a reckoning with our nation’s original sin: racism and white supremacy.

Bullshit!

[Seruzawa]

[Pontiac]

Mr. Bowery is responsible for the overall supervision and direction of historical matters throughout the Department of the Army, which includes management of fifty-seven Army museums and more than thirty historical centers, and overall supervision of the Army’s operational and deployed military historians and military history detachments. As the Chief of Military History, Mr. Bowery plans, formulates, and executes the Army Historical Program, and supervises the production of Army historical works and studies that support the Army’s development of plans, policies, doctrine, force structure, and equipment. The CMH advises the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army and other Army Senior Leaders on historical background relevant to events and projected actions affecting the Army.

This man should be fired at President Trump's earliest convenience.

With his view of military history as evidenced above he is likely to do great damage to the US Armed Service if he continues in his position.

[jeffersondem]

“. . . chose to fight against this country in the service of a new country that promised to preserve chattel slavery.”

The Congress of the “old” country promised to preserve chattel slavery too.

In fact, the U.S. Constitution was pro-slavery and President Lincoln - twice - took an oath to preserve and defend the pro-slavery Constitution.

How long before this chief leads the effort to destroy the Lincoln and Washington monuments?

[jeffersondem]

“We have ended exclusions of LGBTQ citizens from serving openly . . .”

This tells you everything you need to know about this person’s perspective. Not good, that I can tell you.

[blueunicorn6]

Why, MAJOR Bowery thought quite highly of Robert E. Lee.

Looks like someone talked to him.

[Tell It Right]

If slavery was our original sin then it couldn’t be racist. The first slaves were poor white adults and kids abducted from the streets of England (not even counting the indentured servants).

[Chainmail]

Just looking at the overview of his service record and reading his ribbon bar, Mr. Bowery appears to have had a nice, safe noncombat army career.

And maybe living under the radar during the "don't ask, don't tell" period.

[GreyFriar]

LTC Bowery’s service: Bowery served over twenty-three years on active duty in Army Aviation following his commissioning from William and Mary in 1992. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan, served overseas in Korea and Germany, and earned the Master Army Aviator rating for compiling over two thousand flight hours in Army helicopters. For the last two years, Bowery and his wife Mary Ann, an Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps Lieutenant Colonel, have lived in Washington with assignments at the Pentagon and Fort Meade, Maryland. from: https://www.dailypress.com/tidewater-review/tr-ugc-article-army-col-charles-r-bowery-jr-retires-from-2016-01-28-story.html

[GreyFriar]

All,

Please note the link goes to the title page for Army History magazine. Click on the link below Bryan Hockensmith’s intro to the pdf of the magazine and the Chief’s Corner is on page 4. Army History Magazine: Fall 2020 Edition

My apologies,

G-F

[Interesting Times]

This guy is in direct violation of the President’s recent Executive Order. Someone should forward this screed to the Administration.

[dirtymac]

and the first slave owner was a black man.

[Chainmail]

"Deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan" is not actually combat, is it? Infantry and a couple of other MOSs suggest combat, not logistics or other Combat Support specialties (unless they were particularly unlucky at some point). Was he a MEDEVAC pilot or a gunship pilot? Don't know.

I saw that he is married - but it's not totally unknown for a gay man to be married. Ever done any investigations while you were in the service?

The part of his editorial that raises my suspicions are about his "LBTQ and women's inclusion in combat" part. Since when would that be a plus for combat effectiveness?

[Trillian]

He died of a fentanyl overdose, crackhead. Stop spreading lies.

[GreyFriar]

I think he flew Blackhawks in one of his tours, but am pretty sure he didn’t fly Huey Cobras and/or Apaches.

[GreyFriar]

How Floyd died isn’t the point of the article, but using it as a cover for adopting the BLM view of history/agenda for CMH is.

[Chainmail]

I got in trouble with an Air Force Colonel when I saluted a friend of mine and said "Good Morning, Killer". He stormed up to me and demanded to know what I meant by that (I was a Marine captain at the time).

I said "Sir, in our line of work, we're either killers or bus drivers - which one are you"?

My buddy (an Air Force colonel) laughed and the first colonel stormed off.