Posted on 02/20/2017 4:29:52 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
President Trump on Monday named a Philadelphia native, Army Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, to serve as his National Security Adviser.
Herbert Raymond "H.R." McMaster, 54, was tapped after Trump's first NSA chief, Michael Flynn, was forced out last week and another candidate, retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, turned down the position.
Known in military circles as an intellectual strategist, McMaster grew up in the city's Roxborough section and graduated in 1980 from Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Radnor Township. Four years later, he graduated from West Point.
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Norman Schwarzkopf is a graduate of Valley Forge.
Title is wrong. He’ll be an advisor, not lead the NSA.
"Stormin' Norman" is a hero.
Herbert Raymond "H.R." McMaster seems like he's made from the same brand of VERY TOUGH leather.
He is heading the National Security Council, not the National Security Agency. Two different organizations. An intelligence officer usually leads NSA. the Philly paper got their abbreviations wrong.
‘NSA’ is a department of the Pentagon. I think Trump has picked Dan Coats as head of that agency.
McMaster’s job is actually ‘Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs’. NSA apparently stands for ‘National Security Advisor’ in this context. Not that an MSM moron would know.
Good catch. Philly Inquirer and Daily News are left wing and not the most knowledgeable about the country’s military or defense.
Class of 77 here. Those were the days before VFMA went soft and PC. Back then you actually suffered if you screwed up.
No Dan Coats was picked to be the next DNI - Director of National Intelligence!
I hope former Senator Coats is there to dismantle that bureaucratic monstrosity!
I don’t think a new DIRNSA (Director of the National Security Agency) has been picked yet, or even if they are going to pick a new one.
Not exactly, Coats is nominated to be Director of National Intelligence, which is over all of the intel agencies. So he will be over the NSA and many other agencies, but there will be a separate Director of the NSA itself.
Get out the large wet/dry shopvac, the industrial strength stain remover, and the warehouse sized push broom and start clearing house of the leaking turds.
raised in roxborough til i was about voting age. Great place to grow up
I guess you know that the movie Taps was filmed at VFMA?
He’s now the second one who served in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment to be part of the Trump administration (CIA Director Mike Pompeo is the other).
Yes!! Valley Forge is my Alma Mater too!!
Great to have a fellow member of the long line of grey!!
I believe it, too. God uses flawed men. I’ve shared this with friends and family. Thank you for posting.
Ive watched Taps many times. It was made a few years after I was there. I loved seeing the extras who were real faculty. Mataxis, Fontaine, and others.
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