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!!”
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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”
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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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Those SA80 rifles should have given it away.
Don’t be so harsh. Yes, she’s stupid, incompetent and unqualified. But those are small prices to pay for us to show the world how diverse and inclusive we are.
True, a thousand pardons…
Perhaps if we can return civilian leadership to Trump, and turn military leadership over to the NCOs, we might have a chance.
Her Butchness..
There is no way we win wars with “Generals” like this.
We’ll do great in the LGBT and bad spelling contests though.
Nipple Medals? Really?
She got two rows of ribbons for her twitter skills, one row for Facebook and the others for making nice.
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👍👍👍. Good one
Would be funny except that these pole climbing, political, incompetent lowlifes reach positions of senior command and end up getting brave young men needlessly killed as recently witnessed.
How did she earn it?
She should be selling sammiches with that pink haired guy.
Another General with her Stars spinning around her head
not familiar wi combat arms i guess...
Bronze Star without “V” is equivalent to a Meritorious Service Medal in a “War Zone” environment. Lots of mid to senior officers will have them for just being there.
No “V” device for valor - Combat Zone ARCOM. Could have done a good job in an FOB somewhere.
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