Posted on 01/12/2022 8:08:26 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
As much as Revolver admires President Trump’s work on behalf of this country, he was not perfect, and his greatest mistake was probably the enormous deference he gave generals as a matter of course.
It was an understandable mistake, though. When Donald Trump was a boy, America had never lost a single war. The country’s World War 2 commanders were living legends who in less than four years built the U.S. military into the mightiest fighting force to ever exist and crushed powerful foes on the far side of two vast oceans.
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Obama started the purge of the officers and replaced them with woke ass kissing girlie men
Todays general’s are only in it for the money.
Schwarzkopf was reined in by Powell. Enough said.
My brother-in-law is about to be promoted to General. He started out fairly conservative, but he figured out the system during the Obama years. He fits your description pretty well. The last time he visited he told us that “diversity is the military's greatest strength”.
Maybe your brother in law should resign in favor of a minority
I agree. He saw what was happening and retired.
The officers and NCOs that stuck around after Vietnam to rebuild the army really were a unique breed. Privileged to have served under and with them. It has made all the difference. I still frame things the way they taught me: “Choose the harder right”; “Words are important”; “Mission is a task conducted for a purpose...understand both or you will fail”; and of course CSM’s words of wisdom: “You going to camouflage those Buick doors (my ears) or you just planning on letting everybody know where we are?”.
That's how he was killed in combat on 3/30/45 in and around
Paderborn , Germany during a particularly vicious and sharp tank battle between Roses unit, which was really just a lightly armed reconnaissance unit that got ambushed by a much larger column of heavy German armor. Rose when killed when he was reconnoitering and ran afoul of a Mk. Five Panther tank. Some misunderstood communication between the German tank commander and Rose's party led to a burst of fire from an MP 40 machine pistol and Rose was dead, one of a few such high ranking US officers killed in battle. Rose was a West Point graduate. He was Jewish but listed his religion as Protestant.
btt
Did he say it in a robotic monotone, like "Raymond Shaw Is the Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Human Being I’ve Ever Known in My Life"*.
*Manchurian Candidate reference
LOL.
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