These POS media and Democrat a$$hats are getting rid of our best commanders.
Next week, Mattis will become the U.S. Joint Forces Command commander and NATO supreme allied commander for transformation, based in Norfolk. He will be promoted to general, Helland to lieutenant general.
Mattis is known as a tough-talking infantry officer who once got scolded for saying it was "fun" to kill some enemies. Nonetheless, his letter to his troops was unusually personal, including references to seeing military families "choke back tears" and how U.S. troops show compassion for Iraqis despite "a merciless enemy [that] slaughters the innocent."
The letter includes lines adapted from the Irish poet William Butler Yeats:
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends
and I say my glory was I had such friends."