[Rabin]

http://www.stripes.com/news/maj-gen-donahue-takes-command-of-us-army-africa-1.184807

“I know USARAF will be ready again to command and control a (joint task force) if called to do so in some yet unforeseen crisis,” Donahue said. Ham praised Hogg’s leadership as the unit transformed from “a tactical, contingency-focused headquarters to a regionally focused theater Army headquarters.”

Snip, Where the heck was U.S. Africa Command, while the not terrorists, protest ripped us a new asshole in Benghazi.

What is the correct lesson of Gaius Caligula.

J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya, Sean Smith, Foreign Service Information Officer, Glen Doherty, Former Navy SEAL, Tyrone S. Woods, Former Navy SEAL & many others can but wonder.

Raben

[Sgt_Schultze]

I’m planning on meting out a demotion for the CIC for lavish travel, wasted time, race baiting and incompetence.

[mrsmel]

Just googled the general. Was completely NOT surprised. The tip-off in the story was the line mentioning the “historic first”.

[mrsmel]

And this Dempsey is an utter tool. He’s the one who fired highly-decorated LtC Dooley because of his course material on Islam, and called a private citizen to tell him to back off of criticising Islam. I can’t stand this man, Dempsey.

[montag813]

Ward billed the government for a refueling stop overnight in Bermuda, where the couple stayed in a $750 suite. Ward and his wife, accepted dinner and Broadway show tickets from a government contractor billing for lengthy stays at lavish hotels for Ward, his wife and his staff members, at the (NY) Waldorf Astoria hotel. Ward used five-vehicle motorcades when he to shuttle his wife on Washington area shopping trips and spas.

How is this any different from what Barack and Michelle have done for 4 years? Change the names and the press would yawn.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Gotta be kidding me. Military people and civil servants have been demoted and/or fired for wrongly staying an extra day on business or getting caught inflating their costs by a couple hundred bucks on cross-country PCS moves. This general treats every TDY like he’s Charles Lindburgh landing in Paris and he’s probably going to get away with it. This makes me crazy. Gen. Dempsey should have his ass fired and demoted for even suggesting this.

[GeronL]

If that 4-star had disparaged Islamic terrorists, Demspey would want a court martial.

[Nifster]

Oh goody another political promotion type of officer...just like Wesley Clark. And how in the hell does a four star retire at nearly a quarter of a million per year??? Hell give him a nice 125,00 and send the rest to the real soldiers

[kingu]

200 thousand of my tax dollars for a retired desk pilot? Unbelievable how open the looting of the public treasury is these days. Enough is enough. No benefits for any public employee. Let them pay for it from their own pocket, and rather than mine for decades later. This has got to stop at some point.

Sorry, soldier, and you don’t get body armor, we have to pay flag officer pensions.

[Theoria]

Gen. Ward presented me with my first coin back in the day.

I recall him passing out in one of our runs.

Kinda set the tone with that.

[exnavy]

Just following the example of his CINC.

[dennisw]

I never heard of our “Africa Command” (what a joke) until this General William Ward decided to go power mad and become a disgrace

[Lancey Howard]

Defense Department inspector general's report concluded that Ward "engaged in multiple forms of misconduct related to official and unofficial travel... Ward billed the government for a refueling stop overnight in Bermuda, where the couple stayed in a $750 suite. Ward and his wife, accepted dinner and Broadway show tickets from a government contractor billing for lengthy stays at lavish hotels for Ward, his wife and his staff members, at the (NY) Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Ward used five-vehicle motorcades when he shuttled his wife to Washington area shopping trips and spas.

America's top military officer is opposing the demotion of a four-star general for lavish travel and other expenses... Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believe that Gen. William Ward should retire at his full four-star general.

General William Ward

See where this pathetic whore Dempsey is coming from?
You would need the jaws of life to get Dempsey's tongue out of Ubama's anus.

[Future Snake Eater]

Would Dempsey be so kind to a COL or a CPT who executed such fraud, waste, and abuse for his own personal gain? Not a bloody chance. This is simply the flag officer good ol’ boys club coming to the rescue.

[Future Snake Eater]

It’s good to see that people like Wesley Clark, Stan McChrystal, and George Casey are not alone in their pursuit of idiocy, mass death at the altar of PC, and good old-fashioned double-standards.

[Truth29]

Dempsey is a political operative for Obama. Would he be the type of General who would order troops to fire on Americans when Obama commands it?

[Emperor Palpatine]

I’d like to see this traitor Dempsey busted down to buck private.

[Valin]

Retiring as a three-star would Ward's $236,650 a year in retirement pay to $208,802 a year.

Excuse Me $208,802 + Bennies!

[Sine_Pari]

Let’s take a look:

- chastises SEALs for entering the political arena (in opposition to Obama) after leaving the military despite many other former military men doing the same to include Carter, Clark, and Eisenhower to name a few,
- fires a LTC due to political correctness despite the LTC’s career record showing the was an up-and-comer potential future general,
- protects the post retirement benefits of a black general that violated the trust placed in him to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars and may I opine this is probably not the first and only misdeed he has committed since I doubt he would have just turned criminal after putting on stars.

I guess now we know why he’s there and who his godfather is; just look across the Potomac and past the Lincoln Memorial from the Pentagon to find his true master.

Shameful.

[Travis McGee]

[left that other site]

Dempsey Ping.

Just...WOW!