Congress has to re-write the rules so the military has to follow the rules in place. In advance of this being re-written, which has yet to even begin to happen, Mullen is agitating to NOT follow the rules passed by Congress.
And he calls it “integrity”. Mullen could be reduced to molecules and atomic sub-strate matter and not one shred of integrity would not be found in this asshat.
America is crumbling. Mullen should have been removed for this; happily for him the usurper in chief is busily pleasuring himself with one hand while he shreds the constitution with the other.
Mullen is a LEFT tool. Admirals usually are—they get to believing that because they get the flourishes and ruffles and the Navy Band to mark their comings and goings with pomp and circumstance that they are more than the sum of their personal character and performance—most of which in my naval career I found badly wanting. In short, they lie shamelessly and falsify data and events to serve their own careers.
Let me summarize: Senior flag rank officers are, more often than not, PC pukes and vicious little lapdogs snarling and biting subordinates while firmly attaching their lips to their superiors.
I respect none of them. I never did. I just followed orders. I refused to follow the ones where I was ordered to falsify reports from what I had witnessed and recorded. I had one answer—you change it, you put your name on it, my report stands as is, accurate and objective, or it does not get my signature. I was a Ltjg the last time they pulled that crap on me. I suppose it explains how I retired as a LCDR. Pissed too many of them off.
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Let me summarize: Senior flag rank officers are, more often than not, PC pukes and vicious little lapdogs snarling and biting subordinates while firmly attaching their lips to their superior’s ASSHOLES.
You don’t rise above USN Captain/US Army Colonel without being very political (the occasional exception getting one star but never further). Flag rank is knowing who and where to kiss on the way up. Just the nature of things. Mullen wouldn’t have been appointed if he hadn’t marched in lock-step with the administration and be a “Yes” man.
Administration wants this, so does Mullen. If the administration didn’t want this, neither would Mullen. Remember, this is the same Pentagon group that has agreed to giving the Taliban constitutional rights in Afganistan and other stupid decisions.