He called from his aircraft over Afghanistan to "congratulate" homosexual activists on the SCOTUS decision, and immediately ordered benefits in the Billions to be paid to homosexual "spouses."
He is destroying the DoD civilian workforce, which is composed of 44% military veterans. The furlough is finanically ruining the lives of mechanics, teachers, nurses, cops, engineers, and every other profession that directly supports our military.
Hagel should be standing on the desk of Obama and screaming at the top of his lungs in the halls of Congress - demanding Sequestration stop harming our military - now.
Hagel should immediately suspend millions on gopher research, a $455 million upgrade to Gitmo (including a new audio visual entertainment room), and Billions to the Muslim brotherhood.
No on in American even cares remotely about our uniformed military either, and what they have been through.
Commercials like this one are soooooo 2006.
One wonders to what extent this unhappy situation is due to the knowledge that they’re working for a dickhead president....
Dittos to that.
Hagel is managing the DoD right into the ground.....
Sorry, this guy has to have a severe ‘angle’ to say something like this. What is he up to?
Thanks for your post. I wasn’t aware of how much the DoD civilian workforce was affected.
A few hundred million more for well-connected contractors to provide Racial Sensitivity Training to the troops.
yeah, THAT’LL fix it!! /sarc
Change our “goal” in each theater to deicmating the enemy, not Nation building.
Change our ROE to “smash everything flat if attacked”, regardless of local collateral.
In the next 3 months, plan on bringing everyone back as there will be nothing left to destroy.
Cut their rations again. Maybe it’ll work this time.
Yeah well, being forced to surrender to terrorists and celebrate sodomy will depress you......
Our military has been ridden hard since Desert Storm. Then there was the Bosnia/Kosovo rotation, and then the focus on Iraq, and then the transition of focus to Afghan. So, we go all the way back to 1990. That is 23 years of a tough optempo.
What has made it so rough? I would argue for downsizing the military during the Clinton era to 10 divisions, and then in the Obama era to the brigade equivalent of about 8 divisions. And now they want to make it smaller.
There was a 2 simultaneous wars strategy primarily to fight 2 wars if necessary. Alternate reasons for that manpower level would be what we see now. An extended war, and especially one we’re not particularly concerned with winning quickly, would tap the strength of those who serve.
What’s the best answer?
Increase back to 13 divisions, rid ourselves of the brigade focus, and put a warrior in the White House. That plan is, of course, listed backwards.
Obama should resign due to incompetence.
It would also help quite a bit if we stopped being the world’s police force. There was a time when the military wasn’t spread all over the globe on one deployment after another. Leadership needs to learn how to set priorities. If it isn’t directly related to national defense, then maybe we shouldn’t go. Of course, this is way, way too much to expect from President Obama and his ilk. Like all leftists, they hate the DoD. I’m not saying we need to be isolationists, but we could certainly be a little less expeditionary.
Bush’s Fault, no doubt.
but I thought Obama ended all the unnecessary wars. How can this be?
Maybe because many in Afghanistan no longer have hot breakfasts, midnight meals, decent lunches, decent latrines & showers, etc., while Zero takes $100 million vacations on the taxpayer dime?
Plus large taxpayer money helping Muslims inside the DOD, too.
what a farce
we have enough on out plate, militarily
and Obama has added troops and logistics operations, in Africa, in multiple locations, and not just “special operations”, and most recently in Jordan and Turkey in defense of the Sunni-Islamist putsch against Assad
I always hear screaming about little Korea, when a bigger question is when will prosperous western Europe take care of its own defenses, after sixty-plus years on the dole to us. Britain and France always have troops for foreign military adventures abroad that serve their own “national interest” yet when will the NATO countries in Europe do all the heavy lifting in Europe?
as for Afghanistan, that’s a whole nuther can of worms
maybe BECAUSE of sequestration, the Pentagon will be able to force and administration to start making policy based on priorities as opposed to priorities set merely to fulfill policy wish lists.
Don’t confuse the issue with facts. Congress is busy getting ready to spend millions to arm Al-Qaida in Syria.
Bring all the troops home now.