Posted on 11/12/2013 11:01:56 AM PST by xzins
I don’t have any numbers from previous administrations, but I do know that the military currently has something over 900 serving generals and admirals. The 9 sacked so far this year is about 1%. So, at that rate, in another 99 years EVERY SINGLE general and admiral currently on active duty will have been sacked. If that’s not a purge, I don’t know what is.
I get emails from Military.com with various articles on issues. Todays was the big speech by the pig SecDEF calling for a reduction in pay for all military and cuts in everything else. Everyone else is suffering, thus those putting their lives on the line and those who have already paid an emotion and physical price of service should share in the suffering, which we are already suffering, and accept cuts in everything else like the deadbeats. Of course the deadbeats and the illegals made legal will get raises for their votes. Since the active duty military and retired military communities are tiny in comparison to those above, we are the ones to get the Big Green Winnie.
How can you tell?
Not on policy grounds.
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How many first-person accounts will you be requiring before you believe anything?
Or will you serially mark them all down to "disgruntled employees"?
The plural of "anecdote" is "data".
Gaouette’s relief was unusual and based on the complaint of a man he’d dressed down a bit for his lack of skill handling the aircraft carrier. The poor driving skills were testified to by everyone on the bridge, apparently, but Gaouette was the one who ended up in trouble.
And saying “we could have helped” in Benghazi is not necessarily a statement that “we SHOULD have had that mission.”
It is not unlikely that a commander, in disbelief at the amount of time that rescue operation could have had in Benghazi, might have sarcastically said that ~considering how much time there was~ WE could have pulled off that rescue mission.”
It would be a bit like so many data firms have been saying about the ObamaCare roll out: “Given 3 years, we could have pulled that off for a whole lot less than half a billion dollars.”
I’m not saying that’s what went down with Gaoette, but it would have been a reasonable sarcastic comment. Being in the Arabian Sea would have been no obstacle to such a statement. With a 2100 mile range and a 1000 mph speed, and the aid of refuelers, a Super Hornet could have been there in a reasonable amount of time....3-4 hours if at the time they were on the west side of the Arabian sea, double that if on the east.
Obama is a lunatic. He is destroying the country. But, there is no purge. Unfortunately, the senior military leadership of the country is standing by and enabling the mischief that Obama and his minions are visiting upon this nation.
Now, there is a conundrum. Silencing opposition by means of threats is an age old method that has gotten results through history. That doesn't mean a few don't speak up and lose their positions.
Is that still a purge if many are silenced but only a small percentage are fired? Or is there a different word that should be used?
All are being silenced, none are being fired. Not a single one, they are all toeing the line. Those being fired have nothing to do with politics, they have run afoul of their own personal foibles: zippers, the bottle, ethics, money. The usual bane of human existence.
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Those normal foibles are the cause in some cases, but there are others that are not so obviously rooted in some moral error on the part of the officer in question. And, of course, there is always the subterfuge that can be employed by misdirection: fire for one reason when the real reason goes unmentioned.
Interestingly enough, at the end of WW II my dad was in the Navy for a couple years as a Yeoman 1st class (clerk/typist). He was a farmer before he got in, yet his ability to drive a straight line elevated him to pilot of his ship. It's pretty important for farmers to plow a straight row relative to a point on the horizon and not everyone has that skill.
Your assessment is incorrect. The old guard IS being replaced by 0bots.
That is all I’ll say.
Planes were on Sigonella’s tarmacs ready to roll. I don’t know about Rota’s.
AND PEOPLE WERE IN BENGHAZI.
The Old Guard is not being replaced, they are long gone. The current crop of Senior Leaders are more than happy to embrace and advance the Obama social, political, and military agenda. There is no need for a purge.
You and I disagree on this. Completely. The Old Guard is still in pockets but is/has been replaced. The fights are incredible.
Agreed. We were discussing Gaouette’s supposed statement that he could have had planes to Benghazi and that being the basis of his firing.
It’s possible that Gaouette was being sarcastic about the amount of time available before our Benghazi Seals were murdered.
I know this is a year old but her you will find a long list of who’s been purged
http://asheepnomore.net/2014/11/16/know-immigration-finally-dealt-via-executive-order-think
I thought might be too long to print
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