Posted on 09/05/2021 5:18:26 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Maria Gervais, who heads up the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command posted a photo Saturday of what she thought were U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan, but it turns out they were British troops later IDed as being with the 16th Air Assault Brigade. Getting that third star apparently doesn’t take much in today’s woke military.
Not noticing the British uniforms and weaponry (SA80s), Gervais tweeted Saturday morning, “This picture is worth 1000 words—thanks to these American hero’s. #Grateful”
Screen capture by Arthur Schwartz. Original tweet linked below. (Update: Gen. Gervais deleted the tweet Saturday night and her follow-up tweet.)
18 minutes later Gervais acknowledged her error, “Absolutely correct— British troops— thankful to our British heroes and all who helped w/ this mission! Absolutely love the picture!!”
SNIP
As one can imagine the comments by incredulous Americans were not so forgiving. This one by retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jesse Jane Duff says it best, “Yikes. A 3 star general at that. My Marines woulda’ submitted my retirement papers for me if I did that. Maybe that’s why the military left so many Americans behind – the generals didn’t recognize them.”
https://twitter.com/JessieJaneDuff/status/1434287775692455941
This is a close second, “Cost of forever war for US: $2 trillion, US LTG not knowing these are British soldiers: Priceless”
SNIP
Several posters noted the misspelling of heroes which just added to the sense of incompetence, “Not sure what’s worse. That she used an apostrophe to spell “heroes” or that she can’t tell our guys from Brits.”
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I’m surprised she didn’t chide them for being so white and male.
First clue, it appears every one of them is white.
AA Dyke
“American hero’s”
I don’t think Admiral Halsey got the nickname for the same reason.
“Lieutenant General Maria Gervais, who heads up the Army’s Training “
What page in the training manual is “Learn to recognize your own troops” on?
Definitely a taco muncher...
“Training and communist Doctrine “ command.
Uh... am I gonna have to be the one to mention the ironic placement of those two round medal thingies on “zer” jacket, tunic, whatever that part of the uniform is called?
Quota promotions have consequences.
Skin color alone should have given it away. Too much white flesh to be a post-Truman American unit.
Our entire upper military hierarchy has wandered into a fever swamp from which they apparently cannot escape. Illogical thinking, unguarded remarks, an almost mesmerized lockstep response to just about every situation that is the least bit deviant from the “word” from on high.
Those few who still express the kind of thinking that leads to victory over enemies and overcoming obstacles in action, are swiftly being swept away, unless they have carefully concealed their unique views and strategies.
Our military forces are being groomed for failure at every level.
They look totally exhausted, bless ‘em.
Forget that she’s an idiot for a moment.
WTF are officers in our military doing with damned Twitter accounts?
I joined the USAF in 2001.
I wouldn’t join now.
Have you seen this video? It features Army recruitment films from China, Russia and USA. China and Russia look “tough” but USA requirement film is a cartoon featuring Emma who grows up with 2 mommies, and always wanted to be a soldier.
It’s probably hard to sleep when surrounded by terrorists.
Second clue all men.
She got two rows of ribbons for her twitter skills, one row for Facebook and the others for making nice.
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