Posted on 05/06/2025 9:42:54 AM PDT by Signalman
Grammatically is should be “Fewer Generals...”
I expect most of this could be done by attrition: anybody with stars on his shoulders has been in long enough to retire. Such retirements could be encouraged ...
He is right. Too many people at the top. The herd needs to be thinned out.
And in the process, he’ll get rid of the woke, lesser qualified non-warfighting riff-raff
He’s a young whipper-snapper turning off all the old men. Kinda reminds me of Big Balls.
The enlisted ranks should be thinned out of all NCO’s with more than 20 years.
Historic! Massive! Maybe a reduction of 10 out of 44. Oh how breathtaking.
But the article must be using some DEI math. Look at the ratios mentioned for now and ww2. Use those numbers to calculate the ratios. Not even close.
Who is responsible for such garbage writing? But! It’s historic! Massive! Just click here and get a freeper to post it.
LOL that was my first reaction as well.
Has the esteemed and all-powerful Judge Boasberg given him the okay on this?
Politics has been at the forefront of promotions for a long while and we need to be careful to make sure its the more difficult elements which are encouraged to find a quiet existence elsewhere.
One of the problems with the Chinese military is that they have swarms of higher level officers almost all of which have their positions due to political placement with very few actually having any appropriate training or ability. This recently showed how fragile their military is despite the number of generals when they had to stop an exercise because the only two command officers that were capable of functioning within their roles were in custody and there were significant concerns related to friendly fire and possibly starting a war prematurely.
They only have a little puddle on their doorstep to worry about and no nearby land based army of any significance threatening them. Imagine what will happen if political appointees are involved in our complicated global operation.
It could be done that way, but there is a very limited time available to do meaningful reforms to the US Military before the next big conflict hits us.
I do not believe there is enough time left to get done all of what is needed. We may just barely squeak by if we are lucky.
This!
You don’t know very much about uniform wear and regulations.
Grammatically is should be “Fewer Generals...”
Thank you.
That is the only way they reached that high level—starting under Obama.
Finally.
Please enlighten me.
Incompetent General: “General Halftrack, reporting as ordered!”
Hegseth: “Close the door, please.”
[Door is closed]
Hegseth: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Easy way is I have your request for retirement on my desk at 0500 tomorrow. It will be approved. We don’t even need to talk about the hard way ...”
Incompetent General: [1000 yd stare ...]
Hegseth: “Dismissed”
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